Integrating collaborative applications with LEICA

Due to their unpredictable nature, collaboration activities are rarely supported by a single CSCW technology. Then different types of collaborative applications are usually applied in order to support group work such as collaborative e-learning. But in spite of being executed to accomplish a common...

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Main Authors: Gomes, R.L., Rivera, G.J.H., Courtiat, J.P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Collaborative work
Computer applications
Computer networks
Context-aware services
Educational institutions
Electronic learning
International collaboration
Scholarships
Web services
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Summary:Due to their unpredictable nature, collaboration activities are rarely supported by a single CSCW technology. Then different types of collaborative applications are usually applied in order to support group work such as collaborative e-learning. But in spite of being executed 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 combine 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 the definition of collaboration policies for controlling the interactions between collaborative applications.
DOI:10.1109/ITRE.2005.1503126