The Aristotle Approach to Open Hypermedia

Large-scale distributed hypermedia systems comprise a generation of powerful tools to meet the demands of the new information globalization era. The most promising of such systems have characteristics that allow for the easy adaptation both to an, actually, unpredictable technological evolution and to the constantly evolving information needs of users. Such systems are generally known as Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS). Recently, research effort has been focused on the formulation of a solid set of OHS standards (i.e., protocols, reference models and architectures) that would stem from a common understanding and thus, direct future implementations. Unfortunately, sophisticated hypermedia notions like composite nodes and dynamic linking, still found in older, monolithic hypermedia systems, have been overlooked or roughly portrayed. This paper presents a distributed system architecture implemented on top of a hypermedia model for OHS, which captures notions like these and sets the foundat...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: RCC
• Authors: Costas Petrou, Drakoulis Martakos, Michael Hatzopoulos, S. Halamandaris, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
• Keywords: Hypermedia, Hypermedia Systems, Open Hypermedia Systems, RCC 2000