This magazine provides a journal-quality evaluation and review of Internet-based computer applications and enabling technologies. It also provides a source of information as well as a forum for both users and developers. The focus of the magazine is on Internet services using WWW, agents, and similar technologies. This does not include traditional software concerns such as object-oriented or structured programming, or Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) or Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) standards. The magazine may, however, treat the intersection of these software technologies with the Web or agents. For instance, the linking of ORBs and Web servers or the conversion of KQML messages to object requests are relevant technologies for this magazine. An article strictly about CORBA would not be. This magazine is not focused on intelligent systems. Techniques for encoding knowledge or breakthroughs in neural net technologies are outside its scope, as would be an article on the efficacy of a particular expert system. Internet Computing focuses on technologies and applications that allow practitioners to leverage off services to be found on the Internet. Agents are one technology for doing so, independent of claims about intelligence. In fact, most of the useful agent technology being deployed on the Internet is distinct from the multi-user agent technology developed in the AI world. The latter typically focuses on architectures supporting beliefs, intentions, and other human-like characteristics. Such characteristics are typically not relevant to Internet agents. More important are system engineering issues such as Internet mobility, shared protocols, ontologies, registration, and routing. Network software and hardware per se are not in the scope of this magazine. On the other hand, hardware that permits faster execution of a specific Web technology, such as Java chips, would be covered.

這本雜志提供了一本關于基于互聯網的計算機應用和使能技術的期刊質量評估和評論。它還為用戶和開發人員提供信息源和論壇。該雜志的重點是使用WWW、代理和類似技術的互聯網服務。這不包括傳統的軟件關注點，如面向對象或結構化編程，或公共對象請求代理體系結構（CORBA）或對象鏈接和嵌入（OLE）標準。然而，雜志可能會把這些軟件技術與Web或代理的交叉點放在一起。例如，ORBS和Web服務器的鏈接或KQML消息到對象請求的轉換是本雜志的相關技術。一篇關于CORBA的文章是不會的。本雜志不關注智能系統。編碼知識的技術或神經網絡技術的突破超出了它的范圍，就像一篇關于特定專家系統有效性的文章一樣。互聯網計算側重于技術和應用程序，使從業人員能夠利用互聯網上的服務。特工是這樣做的一種技術，獨立于對情報的要求。事實上，在互聯網上部署的大多數有用的代理技術都不同于人工智能世界中開發的多用戶代理技術。后者通常側重于支持信念、意圖和其他類人特征的架構。這些特征通常與Internet代理無關。更重要的是系統工程問題，如互聯網移動性、共享協議、本體、注冊和路由。網絡軟件和硬件本身不在本雜志的范圍內。另一方面，將允許更快地執行特定的Web技術（例如Java芯片）的硬件。