Hosting services/spl minus/linking the information warehouse to the information consumer

Author

Freeman, B. ; Lidor, G.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

1994

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

171

Abstract

The warehouse and highway analogies of the information infrastructure address the storage and transport of information. To create information services for end-users, the infrastructure needs to address also the "retail" functions of ubiquitous availability, customer support, billing, advertising, and packaging the information in an easy-to-use form, accessible to the information consumers. This paper describes the concepts and functions of hosting services, designed to address these "retail" functions and fill the gaps between the raw information "mine", the information warehouse, and the information consumer.<>

Keywords

advertising; data communication systems; information services; invoicing; advertising; billing; customer support; data storage; data transport; end user information services; hosting services; information consumers; information highway; information infrastructure; information packaging; information warehouse; retail functions; ubiquitous availability; Advertising; Availability; Bandwidth; Communication networks; Computer networks; Joining processes; Local area networks; Network servers; Packaging; Road transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '94, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5380-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1994.282929

Filename

282929