Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
The BERKOM multimedia collaboration service
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
Experiences with workflow management: issues for the next generation
CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A service request description language
Proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference on Formal Description Techniques VII
Flexible Real-time Meeting Support for Workflow Management Systems
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Information Systems Track-Collaboration Systems and Technology - Volume 2
An Agent-Based Telecooperation Framework
CoBuild '98 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture
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Telecooperation receives increasing importance in a globalized information and work infrastructure. Among others, teleconferencing and workflow management are technological areas being studied and developed to support telecooperation scenarios. I.e. real-time collaboration tasks are being supported by teleconferencing systems, asynchronous tasks are being supported by workflow management systems. An integrated telecooperation framework for both approaches is described which uses a conference broker to couple both system types. The close coupling, however, is not transparent with respect to the actual instances of used systems. This lack in service selection transparency also results in a lack of location transparency. Thus, we extend our framework by a trading service. Workflow modules act as the importers of teleconferencing services being exported by conference modules. A distributed trading service mediates between service offers and service requests. The trader is self-sufficient as it does not require any distributed platform, such as CORBA or DCE. It may be deployed in a standard internet infrastructure.