Distributed Communities on the Web [electronic resource] : 4th International Workshop, DCW 2002 Sydney, Australia, April 3-5, 2002, Revised Papers /

Open Problems in Distributed Communities -- Position Papers -- “The Medium” Is the Message -- A Middleware Architecture for Personalized Communities of Devices -- A General Purpose Model for Presence Awareness -- SecAdvise: A Security Mechanism Advisor -- Adaptive Networks -- Research on Reliable Communication in Real-Time Collaborative Designing Systems -- Efficient Connection Management for Web Applications -- QoS Performance Improvement for Web Applications -- An Efficient Algorithm for Application-Layer Anycasting -- Experimenting with Gnutella Communities -- Collaborative Systems -- The SmartPhone: Interactive Group Audio with Complementary Symbolic Control -- PIÑAS: Supporting a Community of Co-authors on the Web -- A Group-Based Time-Stamping Scheme for the Preservation of Group Intentions -- A User-Centred Consistency Model in Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems -- Multi Agent Transactional Negotiation: Application to E-marketing -- A Rule-Driven Approach for Defining the Behaviour of Negotiating Software Agents -- Distributed Transaction Management in a Peer-to-Peer Process-Oriented Environment -- Languages for the Web -- Using XML Schemas to Create and Encode Interactive 3-D Audio Scenes for Multimedia and Virtual Reality Applications -- The Design of High-Level Database Access Method in a Web-Based 3D Object Authoring Tool -- Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL -- Noema: A Metalanguage for Scripting Versionable Hypertexts -- Adaptive Distributed Systems -- Sharing Social Recommendations: Towards a Social Portal -- Enabling Technologies for Communities at Web Shops -- Modelling Service-Providing Location-Based E-communities and the Impact of User Mobility -- Client Migration in a Continuous Data Network -- Using Jini to Integrate HomeAutomation in a Distributed Software-System.