Welcome!
We are a research group within the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado. The objective of the WebNet project is to design and build computational tools for design and management of Local Area Networks (LANs). This website attempts to communicate our ideas about computational tools for LAN design and to invite your ideas.
What is WebNet?
WebNet is the name of our LAN design environment prototype. WebNet contains tools for doing network design, and web-based information spaces for storing and delivering network domain knowledge. We would like WebNet to be an environment within which LAN designers can design, communicate, remember, and learn.
An Invitation
We invite and appreciate any comments you may have about any aspect of the WebNet project! In particular, we would like to hear what Local Area Network professionals think. We need feedback from the LAN community to keep us on the right track!
The WebNet Forum
We hope to generate a dialog through this website about issues relevant to our project. We've provided some likely starting points for telling us what you think, but feel free to create your message from scratch. Or just take a look at what others have said in the WebNet Forum. Many of the most common issues can be reached through the WebNet FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
Please sign the WebNet Guestbook and briefly introduce yourself so we can all know a little about each other.
Overview of the WebNet information space
A summary of the WebNet Project presents the funding and research background of WebNet. The WebNet LAN Designer allows you to design and simulate a simple LAN. The WebNet LAN Manager provides access to a rich information space relevant to management problems. Sample uses of WebNet can be followed in the WebNet Scenario.
WebNet is intended to provide an interactive medium for building organizational memories within communities of LAN designers and managers. Samples of shared information spaces can be found in the WebNet Email Archive and the WebNet Sim Repository. The archive provides access to the history of email discussions within a community and the repository allows people to share simulation agents used in the WebNet LAN Designer.
Locations within the WebNet site can be reached conveniently from the Website Contents frame on the left. Each link from the table of contents leads to a page that briefly explains the component selected and then leads to detailed pages.
this page last updated 03/05/99 by the WebNet webmaster