Publication
Communications of the ACM
Review
Open France works for information cities
Abstract
The Open Services Architecture and the design principles, based on Web-sevice and computational component models, is discussed. Business, consumers, municipalities, school and other such essential service providers would be connected to the users worldwide through open architecture. Capacity, costs and security concerns are the main factors which determine the number and type of services on offer and the number of registered users in the information cities. Yahoo, AOL and other such portals are developing big, all-access online pool of consumers, businesses and content provides, thus providing them a 24 hours trust-worhty interaction, cummunication and transaction environment.