The first paper was by Andersen Consulting describing their collaborative support environment. Their main claim is that, unlike other groupware products, which provide a passive information space for collaboration, TSE (TRP Support Environment) enables active collaboration. This is done by the introduction of an agent-based work-flow notion. The different agents act on behalf of the participants, organising agendas, etc. The design is based on the concept of mobile agents , which provide a way of executing processes across spatial and temporal spaces by travelling to the machine and executing locally. But, they argue, if mobile agents were to provide work-flow functionality it would be too inneficient. For this reason, they adopted the concept of agent-based work-flow, where by making use of work-flow tool, a work-flow agent can be a facilitator agent providing interfaces between agents and the work-flow tool, eliminating this way the need for mobile agents to store all the work-flow knowledge.
The second paper presented a WWW Object Oriented database idea, whereas the database is organised as a large collection of small text files, each containing the structured information that relates to a particular object. Basically it proposes utilising the Web distributed arquitecture to implement a distributed Object Oriented Database, but without any regard so far for database guidelines and theory, such as duplication, integrity/referential integrity.