A more realistic world wide web

EU-funded researchers have developed a new form of network-based, machine-machine communication called 'Triple Space' that will fuel Web services, semantic Web and tuple space technologies. The TripCom ('Triple space communication') project was funded under the 'Information Society Technologies' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of EUR 3.65 million.

Existing Web service technology is based on the message exchange paradigm that is used for e-mail communication — one that has no real connection to the Web. This is where TripCom stepped in: the TripCom partners developed Web-enabled Web services, effectively providing communication via the continued publication of information. In short, computers can publish and read information just as people create and browse Web pages. Read more...