Adaptive collaboration in an ever-changing environment

Authors:
Jinqiao Yu;Y. V. Ramana Reddy;Shufen Liu;Zhilin Yao;Vijayanand Bharadwaj;Sumitra Reddy;Srinivas Kankanahalli
Affiliations:
(Corresponding author. E-mail: jyu@iwu.edu) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61761, USA;SIPLab, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Qianwei Road No.10, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China;College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Qianwei Road No.10, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China;SIPLab, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;SIPLab, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;SIPLab, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Venue:
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Traditional collaboration systems are typically bundled with a set of tools with pre-specified static workflow and usage patterns. They are found to be inflexible and incompetent for today's heterogeneous and ever-changing collaboration contexts and computing environments. Today's collaboration systems must be aware of the dynamic changes of collaboration contexts in a timely manner and be adaptive to these changes appropriately. In this paper, we illustrate how business logic and computing environment context awareness are provided through a set of shared ontologies with well-defined semantics in a project called as EkSarva. The awareness of collaboration contexts and its changes then enables the collaboration system to adapt to these changes and be more flexible. A dynamic workflow process is also facilitated by the context-awareness.