Visualization of Adlets and Sites
Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new
adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement
adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract
other adlets and pull them together. Conversely an adlet or a collection of
adlets can repulse other adlets and push them apart. A collection of adlets
is called a virtual site or simply a site.
A virtual graph is the set of links and conceptual relations that
characterize a (virtual) site.
For real sites, the sites' locations are their
geographical locations. For virtual sites, the sites' locations are not
geographical locations, but their logical locations in some virtual space.
The distance between two virtual sites is proportional to the force
of mutual attraction.
One virtual site may span several real sites, and one real site may
contain multiple virtual sites.
Figure 3. Visualization of adlets and sites.