The ToxicFarm Integrated Cooperation Framework for Virtual Teams

  • Authors:

  • Claude Godart;Pascal Molli;Gérald Oster;Olivier Perrin;Hala Skaf-Molli;Pradeep Ray;Fethi Rabhi

  • Affiliations:

  • LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France. godart@loria.fr claude.godart@loria.fr;LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France;LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France;LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France;LORIA, INRIA Lorraine, France;School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. p.ray@unsw.au.edu;School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Developing a collaboration solution, that scales to an entire organization, that offers an integrated collection of cooperation tools, that is general enough to address a large range of applications, and that is easy to deploy for most people, is still an open challenge. This paper presents ToxicFarm services that are an integral part of a framework for hosting Internet virtual teams. The originality of this work is in providing a synthesis between contributions from different domains, including version management in software engineering, process management in data engineering, and awareness in groupware tools. The paper describes the overall services offered, discusses design choices for their integration and implementation, presents relations with existing work and describes their use in several emerging e-business application domains, such as e-finance, e-learning and e-telecom.