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- From: eliens@cs.vu.nl (A Eliens)
- Subject: WWW5 API Workshop -- Call for Participation
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- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:32:31 GMT
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- Call for Participation WWW5 Workshop (Paris, May 1996)
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- Programming the Web -- in search for APIs
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- The call for participation can be found at URL
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- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/WWW5/workshop.html
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- For your convenience, the text is included below.
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- Programming the Web - in search for APIs
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- The workshop focusses on
- concepts and requirements for high-level API
- suitable for developing Web-aware applications.
- An explicit goal of the workshop is to publish
- state of the art references to existing APIs.
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- Format:
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- Full-Day
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- Workshop Committee
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- The Chairman, and committee members contacts:
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- Anton Eliensns (Chair)
- Email: eliens@cs.vu.nl
- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/
- Dept. of Math. and CS
- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
- The Netherlands
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- David De Roure
- Email: dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
- Department of Electronics & Computer Science,
- University of Southampton,
- Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
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- Simon Dobson
- Email: S.Dobson@rl.ac.uk
- http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/people/sd/contact.html
- Computing and Information Systems
- CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
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- The committee is assisted by:
- Jacco van Ossenbruggen (VU, Amsterdam) jrvosse@cs.vu.nl
- Bastiaan Schönhage (VU, Amsterdam) bastaan@cs.vu.nl
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- Abstract
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- There seems to be a trend towards replacing
- monolithic general-purpose Web browsers
- by more finely-tuned Web applications
- enhanced with user-specific functionality,
- such as for example applets that allow
- for user-interaction or
- the display of dynamic information.
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- This raises the issue of what support should be
- provided for developing such applications.
- This workshop intents to address these issues.
- Topics include:
- * Web programming languages
- * components for developing Web applications
- * software libraries -- HTML/HTTP support
- * (object) composition mechanisms -- CORBA, OLE, ...
- * additional communication protocols -- broadcasting, ToolTalk, ...
- * agents -- mobile code, ...
- To focus the discussion, we state that
- "the language wars are over, the next war will
- be an API war, or rather several of them."
- In other words, as a result of the workshop, we like
- to see (proposals for) high-level support
- for Web-integrated applications.
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- We like the workshop to result in
- * the definition of requirements for high-level APIs
- and frameworks for Web programming
- * the characterization of suitable components
- for Web-aware applications,
- * an overview of existing APIs for the Web
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- Position papers
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- Position papers from 3-5 (HTML-2.0) pages addressing one of
- the topics mentioned are welcomed.
- Position papers proposing an API must include a
- brief description of the API, its intended
- application domain and preferably
- an indication of practical experience.
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- Deadlines
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- Position papers must be submitted by email before friday 29 March 1996.
- Notification of acceptance: 15 April 1996
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- Anton Eliens eliens@cs.vu.nl
- 4 March 1996
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