Title :
Real-time collaboration in activity-based architectures
Author :
Bardram, Jakob Eyvind ; Christensen, Henrik Bærbak
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Aarhus Univ., Denmark
Abstract :
With the growing research into mobile and ubiquitous computing, there is a need for addressing how such infrastructures can support collaboration between nomadic users. We present the activity based computing paradigm and outline a proposal for handling collaboration in an activity-based architecture. We argue that activity-based computing establishes a natural and sound conceptual and architectural basis for session management in real-time, synchronous collaboration.
Keywords :
groupware; mobile computing; software architecture; ubiquitous computing; activity-based architecture; activity-based architectures; activity-based computing paradigm; collaboration handling; mobile computing; real-time collaboration; session management; synchronous collaboration; ubiquitous computing; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Pervasive computing; Proposals; Software architecture; Ubiquitous computing; X-ray imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Software Architecture, 2004. WICSA 2004. Proceedings. Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2172-X
DOI :
10.1109/WICSA.2004.1310719