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....Wide Web has broaden the way for general distributed computing using a large set of heterogeneous computers. Unfortunately the resources made available on the Web are almost information only and interaction between users is limited to a few special applications. A Web Operating System (WOS) [8] tries to provide solutions for this problem and generalizes the use of different resources on the Web. Core components of the WOS include resource presentation and user interaction that go beyond the capabilities offered by today s HTML based technology. In this paper we solve the problem of ....

....end as a printed version in user B s hands. What happens behind the scenes First of all, both parties have to locate the resource set. A resource set might be located through a well known location such as a Web page or some dynamic mechanism, similar to a DNS lookup or the eductive engines of [8]. Figure 6: Documents can now be converted and printed by dropping files. When the resource set is found, the users can connect to it. From now on, the resource set knows about the location of the users, and more important, where the resource server of each user is running. Adding resources is ....

Peter Kropf, John Plaice, and Herwig Unger. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, Sainte-Foy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....be converted and printed by dropping files. What happens behind the scenes First of all, both parties have to locate the resource set. A resource set might be located through a well known location such as a Web page or some dynamic mechanism, similar to a DNS lookup or the eductive engines of [6]. When the resource set is found, the users can connect to it. From now on, the resource set knows about the location of the users, and more important, where the resource server of each user is running. Adding resources is now straightforward. Finally, setting up the routing for remote method ....

Peter Kropf, John Plaice, and Herwig Unger. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, Sainte-Foy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....be converted and printed by dropping files. What happens behind the scenes First of all, both parties have to locate the resource set. A resource set might be located through a well known location such as a Web page or some dynamic mechanism, similar to a DNS lookup or the eductive engines of [7]. When the resource set is found, the users can connect to it. From now on, the resource set knows about the location of the users, and more important, where the resource server of each user is running. Adding resources is now straightforward. The user links the resources by choosing an output ....

Peter Kropf, John Plaice, and Herwig Unger. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, Sainte-Foy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....networks are used successfully in many real world settings. Applications range from hardware (super scalar pipelined CPU s) to tools (development environments) to business applications (online transaction systems) Using a data flow network in the context of the WOS (Web Operating System [8][9]) is a suitable choice since the WOS requires a resource presentation and control interaction going beyond the current desktop systems [14] In addition, the WOS provides distributed computing through its services which map directly to the nodes of a data flow network. Although the WOSRP (WOS ....

S.B. Lamine, J. Plaice, and P. Kropf. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, Sainte-Foy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....Data flow networks are used successfully in many real world settings. Applications range from hardware (super scalar pipelined CPU s) to tools (development environments) to business applications (online transaction systems) Using a data flow network in the context of the WOS (Web Operating System [8][9] is a suitable choice since the WOS requires a resource presentation and control interaction going beyond the current desktop systems [14] In addition, the WOS provides distributed computing through its services which map directly to the nodes of a data flow network. Although the WOSRP (WOS ....

Peter Kropf, John Plaice, and Herwig Unger. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, Sainte-Foy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....World Wide Web has broaden the way for general distributed computing using a large set of heterogeneous computers. Unfortunately the resources made available on the Web are almost information only and interaction between users is limited to a few special applications. A Web Operating System (WOS) [8] tries to provide solutions for this problem and generalizes the use of different resources on the Web. In this paper we solve the problem of resource presentation on the Web by developing resource sets that act as an interactive meeting point of users and (Internet) resources. Resources can range ....

P. Kropf, J. Plaice, and Herwig Unger. Towards a Web Operating System (WOS). Technical report, Universit'e Laval, D'epartement d'Informatique, SainteFoy (Qu'ebec), Canada, G1K 7P4, 1997.

....the recent expansion of the world wide interconnected network, the execution of applications on remotely connected networks has become more feasible. To achieve this goal, a new Web operating system (WOS TM , a specialized operating system for global computing) is currently under development [6]. A few questions about the applicability of the WOS for global computing have been raised [2] a) will the overhead cost of the management for global computing outweigh the savings obtained by load sharing; b) will the cost of networking dominate the saving by sharing additional resources; c) ....

....the preferred search algorithm for the WOS, discusses its advantages over other shortest path algorithms. Finally, section x4 evaluates the potential of using Pathfinder as a competitive search technique for the WOS TM . 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WOS TM The Web operating system (WOS TM ) [6] concept proposes a set of virtual operating system services that support and manage distributed, heterogeneous, adaptive and dynamically reconfigurable applications. The WOS TM benefits that enable it to support all requirements of distributed programming and computations are listed below. ffl ....

P. Kropf, J. Plaice, and H. Unger. Towards a Web Operating System. In Proceedings of the WebNet'97, 1997.

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P. Kropf, J. Plaice, and H. Unger. Towards a Web Operating System. In WebNet '97, Toronto, 1997.

.... interconnected networks (the Internet, Web) requires an integration of fine and coarse grain load balancing strategies (Banicescu, Ghafoor, and Bilderback 1998) While the implementation of the new Web Operating System (WOS, a specialized operating system for global computing) is in progress (Kropf, Plaice, and Unger 1997), we identify the most competitive fine and coarse grain load balancing strategies that proved to be extremely effective in networks of workstations (Russ, Banicescu, Ghafoor, Janapareddi, Robinson, and Lu 1998) and propose a novel scheme that uses an integration of both for the WOS. The paper ....

....system layers. In addition, the organization of the resource management plays an important role in obtaining an efficient implementation. Innovative systems like client server architectures, CORBA (Corba.org 1997) task brokers in the HP9000 system (HP.com 1995) or some warehouse concepts (Kropf, Plaice, and Unger 1997) support distributed execution of services on different hosts of a distributed architecture. However, these systems need a centralized service which in turn translates in large overheads and therefore long waiting response times when wide area networks such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, or ....

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Kropf, P., J. Plaice, and H. Unger (1997). Towards a Web Operating System. In Proceedings of the WebNet'97 .

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