Commercialization of the Internet
Communications of the ACM
A highly available scalable ITV system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The client's side of the World-Wide Web
Communications of the ACM
A proposal for ensuring high availability of distributed multimedia applications
SRDS '96 Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Application-Level Document Caching in the Internet
Application-Level Document Caching in the Internet
Introducing contextual objects in an adaptive framework for wide-area mobile computing
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European workshop on Support for composing distributed applications
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The ever-growing number of on-line multimedia services relating to application fields as diverse as commercial, entertainment, and educational fields calls for distributed information systems that help the end-user accessing available services. Most popular information systems, also qualified as resource discovery services, are those provided in the Internet such as the World-Wide Web (Www), which is becoming the dominant Internet Resource [4]. Other systems include those based on the use of private resources, which are aimed at ensuring qualitative access to the information.This paper discusses the design of a new distributed information system, called ETEL (Edition TELématique), that combines the advantages of the above approaches, i.e., we want to provide a system that gives access to a large number of services without sacrificing the services' quality. This paper is structured as follows. The next section outlines approaches to distributed information systems and is followed by an overview of the ETEL system in section 3. Section 4 addresses our work towards ensuring access quality in the ETEL system. Finally, we conclude in section 5, summarizing our work and giving the project status.