
Flexible Collaboration Transparency
1998) Flexible Collaboration Transparency. Technical Report ncstrl.vatech_cs//TR-98-11, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (
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Abstract
This paper presents two distinct contributions: First, we present a critique of collaboration transparency as it is currently implemented in contrast to collaboration-aware implementations. We find conventional collaboration-transparency systems lacking in terms of efficient use of network resources and support for key groupware principles: concurrent work, relaxed WYSIWIS, and group awareness. Second, we examine the causes of these deficiencies, and then present an alternative implementation approach based on an object-oriented replicated architecture where selected single-user interface objects are dynamically replaced by multi-user extensions. The replacement is transparent to the single-user application and its developer. As an instance of this approach, we described its incorporation into a Java-based collaboration-transparency system, called JAMM.
Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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Subjects: | Computer Science > Historical Collection(Till Dec 2001) |
ID Code: | 490 |
Deposited By: | User autouser |
Deposited On: | 05 December 2001 |
Alternative Locations: | URL:http://uther.dlib.vt.edu:9090/TechReports/NotOnline.html, URL:http://historical.ncstrl.org/tr/ps/vatech_cs/TR-98-11.ps |