A Policy-Based Team Collaboration

  • Authors:
  • Jae W. Hwang;Shmuel Rotenstreich

  • Affiliations:
  • The George Washington University, USA;The George Washington University, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of e-Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper presents a policy-based coordination model for team collaboration. Team collaboration requires an agreement that utilizes a negotiation protocol to find candidate teams and to decide on a collaboration partner. The decision relies on policies that are rules governing team situations in an organization. Contexts and rules allow reasoning about team situations. The authors describe a policy-based negotiation protocol. It introduces an ontology-based whiteboard component that uses the Semantic Web technologies such as Web Ontology Language OWL, Semantic Web Rule Language SWRL, and Semantic Query-enhanced Web Rule Language SQWRL. The negotiation protocol facilitates whiteboards as a computational foundation for awareness of situations and policies, and it assists with the final decision using a measure based on the combination of rule-based queries and functions.