11 janv. 2007 INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Abiteboul Serge           Titre     Transparents Data Ring: let us turn the net into a database Résumé     Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Data Ring that can be seen as a network version of a database or a content warehouse. A main goal is to achieve better performance for content management without requiring the acquisition of explicit control over information resources. The collaborating peers that form the Data Ring are autonomous, heterogeneous and their capabilities may greatly vary, e.g., from a sensor to a large database.         Video