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The Web Operating System — WOS

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The rapid development and the heterogeneous nature of the Web ensure that it is impossible to develop a complete catalog of all of the resources and services available on the Web. As a result, no single operating system can be used for Web computation, since it will necessarily be incomplete. Furthermore, it is unclear that such an operating system would even be useful, considering the different levels of granularity of service that need to be provided.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Unsw Sydney, Nsw, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Rostock, D-18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Laval University, 3908 Adrien-Pouliot, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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Plaice, J., Unger, H. (2000). The Web Operating System — WOS. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_1

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