Today, the Internet provides a large set of mostly independent resources. In the near future, the Internet will provide e-services built by combining resources to achieve specific goals. This improvement will be possible thanks to new framework technologies, such as E-Speak, Jini, or the Open Agent Architecture. These technologies allow providers to create, compose, deploy, and advertise new e-...

Consulting groups are predicting that the future of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) exchanges will generate exponentially increasing revenues. However, the economic uncertainties in the market and technological innovations, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and e-Speak from Hewlett Packard, may significantly alter the outlook for the current exchanges. In this study,...

For the past few months, we have been working to design and prototype a WYSIWYG programming tool allowing end users to offer and deliver services through e-speak. This document begins with a brief summary of the design and progress on the prototype to date. We then use an evaluation device called representation design benchmarks to evaluate FAR’s design against some issues derived from cognitiv...