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The project DejaVu aims at providing a framework for the development of open heterogeneous distributed object oriented intelligent hypermedia systems. It serves as a vehicle for research in hypermedia systems, object oriented programming, distributed logic programming, intelligent information systems and software engineering. The DejaVu framework has a number of innovative features. First of all, we propose to employ inferential links as a means to traverse information stored in documents. Inferential links allow navigation on the basis of contextual knowledge. Such inferential links may be defined declaratively, in a rule-based way. The support for these links is provided by what we consider another innovative feature of our framework, a software platform that combines a low-level system implementation language (Active C++) and a high level logic-based distributed language DLP in what we call 'linguistic symbiosis'. An essential part of the (multi-lingual) environment is the hush (h...