I s the Internet a superhighway to information or a high-tech extension of the home telephone? We address this question by operationalizing information acquisition and entertainment as the use of the World Wide Web and interpersonal communication as the use of electronic mail (e-mail), and examine how 229 members of 110 households used these services during their first year on the Internet. The...

1 NASA/GSFC, Code 618, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-301-614-6608 2 Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Technical Support Services Contractor to USGS EROS, NASA/GSFC Mail Code 618, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-301-614-6683 3 USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls...

EU-IST Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482 KWEB Deliverable D2.4.2 (WP2.4) The description of Web services with formal, explicit semantics promises to bring a new level of automation to current Web services. In this context, the automatic location and composition of existing services to fulfill a given user request without the need for neither prior agreements nor costly custom code pla...