Title :
Service combinators for Web computing
Author :
Cardelli, Luca ; Davies, Rowan
Author_Institution :
Microsoft Res., Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
The World Wide Web is rich in content and services, but access to these resources must be obtained mostly through manual browsers. We would like to be able to write programs that reproduce human browsing behavior, including reactions to slow transmission-rates and failures on many simultaneous links. We thus introduce a concurrent model that directly incorporates the notions of failure and rate of communication, and then describe programming constructs based on this model
Keywords :
information resources; information retrieval; Web computing; World Wide Web; concurrent model; failure reaction; human browsing behavior; programming constructs; service combinators; simultaneous links; slow transmission rate reaction; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Counting circuits; Distributed databases; Helium; Humans; LAN interconnection; Protection; Uniform resource locators; Web sites;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
