Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Decentralized ad-hoc groupware API and framework for mobile collaboration
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Past and future emergency response information systems
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
XMIDDLE: A Data-Sharing Middleware for Mobile Computing
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Coordination Middleware Supporting Rapid Deployment of Ad Hoc Mobile Systems
ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
On P2P Collaboration Infrastructures
WETICE '05 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise
GRACE: Enabling collaborations in wide-area distributed systems
WETICE '05 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise
Autonomous and self-sufficient groups: ad hoc collaborative environments
CRIWG'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Groupware: design, Implementation, and Use
Handheld-based electronic meeting support
CRIWG'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Groupware: design, Implementation, and Use
Sharing information resources in mobile ad-hoc networks
CRIWG'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Groupware: design, Implementation, and Use
Supporting the Development of Applications in Heterogeneous Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV
An Approach to Enable Workflow in Mobile Work Scenarios
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV
A mobile portfolio to support communities of practice in science education
OCSC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Online communities and social computing
Designing mobile shared workspaces for loosely coupled workgroups
CRIWG'07 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Groupware: design implementation, and use
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Advances in wireless communication and mobile computing extend collaboration scenarios. A current strategy to address productive, educational and social problems is to incorporate mobile workers using computing devices into work practices. Typically, collaborative applications intended to support mobile workers involve some type of centralized data or services. This situation constrains the collaboration capabilities, particularly in ad-hoc communication scenarios. We propose an autonomous software module able to provide and consume services from others units. We call it a Service-Oriented Mobile Unit (SOMU). A SOMU has been implemented as a middleware running on laptops and PDAs. Collaborative mobile applications developed on this middleware are then able to interact among them almost in any communication scenario. Availability of this tool is particularly relevant to support mobile collaboration when there is no stable communication support or no communication at all.