IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING

This magazine provides a journal-quality evaluation and review of Internet-based computer applications and enabling technologies. It also provides a source of information as well as a forum for both users and developers. The focus of the magazine is on Internet services using WWW, agents, and similar technologies. This does not include traditional software concerns such as object-oriented or structured programming, or Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) or Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) standards. The magazine may, however, treat the intersection of these software technologies with the Web or agents. For instance, the linking of ORBs and Web servers or the conversion of KQML messages to object requests are relevant technologies for this magazine. An article strictly about CORBA would not be. This magazine is not focused on intelligent systems. Techniques for encoding knowledge or breakthroughs in neural net technologies are outside its scope, as would be an article on the efficacy of a particular expert system. Internet Computing focuses on technologies and applications that allow practitioners to leverage off services to be found on the Internet. Agents are one technology for doing so, independent of claims about intelligence. In fact, most of the useful agent technology being deployed on the Internet is distinct from the multi-user agent technology developed in the AI world. The latter typically focuses on architectures supporting beliefs, intentions, and other human-like characteristics. Such characteristics are typically not relevant to Internet agents. More important are system engineering issues such as Internet mobility, shared protocols, ontologies, registration, and routing. Network software and hardware per se are not in the scope of this magazine. On the other hand, hardware that permits faster execution of a specific Web technology, such as Java chips, would be covered.

这本杂志提供了一本关于基于互联网的计算机应用和使能技术的期刊质量评估和评论。它还为用户和开发人员提供信息源和论坛。该杂志的重点是使用WWW、代理和类似技术的互联网服务。这不包括传统的软件关注点，如面向对象或结构化编程，或公共对象请求代理体系结构（CORBA）或对象链接和嵌入（OLE）标准。然而，杂志可能会把这些软件技术与Web或代理的交叉点放在一起。例如，ORBS和Web服务器的链接或KQML消息到对象请求的转换是本杂志的相关技术。一篇关于CORBA的文章是不会的。本杂志不关注智能系统。编码知识的技术或神经网络技术的突破超出了它的范围，就像一篇关于特定专家系统有效性的文章一样。互联网计算侧重于技术和应用程序，使从业人员能够利用互联网上的服务。特工是这样做的一种技术，独立于对情报的要求。事实上，在互联网上部署的大多数有用的代理技术都不同于人工智能世界中开发的多用户代理技术。后者通常侧重于支持信念、意图和其他类人特征的架构。这些特征通常与Internet代理无关。更重要的是系统工程问题，如互联网移动性、共享协议、本体、注册和路由。网络软件和硬件本身不在本杂志的范围内。另一方面，将允许更快地执行特定的Web技术（例如Java芯片）的硬件。