Infosphere project: system support for information flow applications

Abstract

We describe the Infosphere project, which is building the systems software support for information-driven applications such as digital libraries and electronic commerce. The main technical contribution is the Infopipe abstraction to support information flow with quality of service. Using building blocks such as program specialization, software feedback, domain-specific languages, and personalized information filtering, the Infopipe software generates code and manages resources to provide the specified quality of service with support for composition and restructuring.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Digital libraries and archives

  • Electronic commerce

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Digital libraries and archives

• Software and its engineering