It includes the development of electronic mail extensions (such as message storage and intelligent mailboxes) and electronic mail bsed applications (like automatic document translation).
The main results of the work in this sub-line come from some ESPRIT projects like TWB-II (Translator's Workbench II), TWD abd CACTUS (CARLOS ("Communication Architecture for Layered Open Systems") Addition for Clustered Terminal User Agents).
The most relevant papers in this topic are:
Jaime Delgado and Manel Medina. Group Communication Mailbox Server Accessible through a Standard Mailbox Client. In Message Handling Systems and Application Layer Communications Protocols , pp. 177-189. North-Holland, 1991.
Jaime Delgado, Francisco Jordán, and Manel Medina. X.400 Access to Machine Translation Systems. In Message Handling Systems and Application Layer Communications Protocols , pp. 317-327. North-Holland, 1991.
Jaime Delgado and Manel Medina. Use of the Abstract Service Definition Convention for Distributed Information Processing Systems Specification. In Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications , pp. 217-231. North-Holland, 1989.
Jaime Delgado, Manel Medina, Francisco Jordán, and Leandro Navarro. A User Interface for Distributed Applications. In ESPRIT'88 Putting the Technology to Use , pp. 1699-1710. North-Holland, 1988.
Jaime Delgado, Manel Medina, B. Butscher, and M. Tschichholz. Storage Agents in Message Handling Systems. In Office Systems: Methods and Tools , pp. 97-113. North-Holland, 1987.
