Loosely-Coupled Integration of CSCW Systems

As collaboration activities usually involve several people with different group tasks and needs, they are rarely supported by a single CSCW technology. Then different types of collaborative applications are usually applied in order to support group work. But in spite of being used to accomplish a co...

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Published inDistributed Applications and Interoperable Systems pp. 38 - 49
Main Authors Gomes, Roberta L., Rivera, Guillermo J. Hoyos, Courtiat, Jean Pierre
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Exact sciences and technology
Software
Groupware
Reactive system
Web service
Notices
Concurrent engineering
Distributed system
Interoperability
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Summary:As collaboration activities usually involve several people with different group tasks and needs, they are rarely supported by a single CSCW technology. Then different types of collaborative applications are usually applied in order to support group work. But in spite of being used to accomplish a common collaboration task, these applications are executed independently without getting any advantage of each other. The integration of such applications would allow them to dynamically interoperate, combining their different functionalities in a controlled way. In order to achieve integration, we propose LEICA, a loosely-coupled integration environment which allows collaborative applications to interact without loosing their autonomy. LEICA relies on Web services technology, event notification system, and collaboration policies for controlling the interactions between integrated applications.
ISBN:9783540262626
3540262628
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11498094_4