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Dear Readers:
This number 4 of volume of J.UCS, the Journal of Universal Computer
Science contains a selection of 5 papers from a Workshop on Hypermedia
Systems held at the Graz University of Technology November 4-5,
1994. The idea to collect some of the most interesting papers into a
special issue is due to John Lindsay from Kingston University, UK, who
has gone through the trouble of reviewing the papers. Two further
papers of this conference: "Applications and Impact of Hypermedia Systems: An
Overview" (J.Lennon, H.Maurer) and "On Second Generation Hypermedia
Systems" (K.Andrews, F.Kappe, H.Maurer, K.Schmaranz) have already appeared in the pilot issue of J.UCS,
J.UCS 0,0
(1994).
Note that the papers present a good survey of information systems that
are widespread on the Internet, starting with Gopher (authored by
"Mr.Gopher" himself, Mark McCahill from Minnesota), WWW (authored by
one of the four originators of WWW at CERN, Robert Cailliau), WAIS (as
first full-text search engine that became widely used in connection
with a variety of Internet services) to Hyper-G (a paper authored by
two of the leading developers, Frank Kappe and Keith Andrews). One
paper comes from an expert in the commercial arena: D. Goetze, one of
the directors of Springer Pub.Co., a company known for its electronic
publishing efforts including the support of this very journal J.UCS!
Hope you find this issue again interesting. Your opinion on the issues
that have appeared sofar, or on J.UCS in general and how it compares
to other electronic journals are much valued. Please do send me a
brief note if you can spare a few moments of your time: I will report
on opinions received in a later issue. For the time being, thanks for
your continued interest in J.UCS. Due to the fact that we are running
a number of servers, some only accessible within a particular
organisation, others publicly abvailable we don't know how many
readers J.UCS has got. However, our Graz J.UCS homepage has been
accessed over 10.000 times by now, so a conservative estimate is that
J.UCS has been looked at at least 25.000 times. This is probably
quite satisfactory for a start.
With best wishes
Hermann Maurer
email:
hmaurer@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at
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