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Suited Support for Distributed Web Intelligence Cooperative Work

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Abstract

Researches and efforts currently being developed within the World Wide Web environment, whose aim is to provide cooperative supports, are mainly performed in the field of the “Semantic Web”. These efforts are based on technological components such as the XML, RDF, and OWL languages that allow the cooperative definition of distributed ontologies. From these components, it is possible to develop “reasoning” programs that are able a) to infer information from data described with these languages and b) to exploit the defined ontologies. Moreover, programs may also be defined to provide supports to collaborators to cooperatively exploit the defined ontologies. However, all theses efforts remain developed at the application level. Thus, no suited distributed support for Web cooperative work had been investigated that deals with the unreliability of such a distributed environment.

In this chapter, we present the PIÑAS infrastructure which provides means for supporting cooperative work on the Web. Using cooperative applications that are built employing the services of this infrastructure, several users can access and modify replicated shared entities in a consistent and controlled way. PIÑAS provides suited features, such as: user identification, multi-site user definition, user and entity naming, shared entity fragmentation and replication, storage, consistency, and automatic distributed updating. We propose seamless extensions to standard Web services that can be fully integrated within the Web environment. Moreover, the innovative PIÑAS features provide reliable support for temporarily disconnected and nomadic work.

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Notes

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    MVC: “Model-View-Controller” paradigm.

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    AVL: “Abstract-Link-View” paradigm.

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    PAC: “Presentation-Abstraction-Control” paradigm.

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    The “groupware core” term refers to the functional kernel of the groupware.

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    WYSIWIS: What You See Is What I See.

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    “Latecomers” refer to collaborators who join a session in progress.

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    MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

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Decouchant, D., Mendoza, S., Rodríguez, J. (2010). Suited Support for Distributed Web Intelligence Cooperative Work. In: Badr, Y., Chbeir, R., Abraham, A., Hassanien, AE. (eds) Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-077-9_7

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