Requirements for Distributed Event-Based Awareness in P2P Groupware Systems

One of the major premises of P2P systems is to enable fully decentralized collaborative functionalities for supporting work teams and P2P communities. Within collaborative systems, tracking and awareness are vital aspects for a successful collaboration. Despite the experience of using awareness in webbased applications, there has been little research in endowing P2P collaborative systems with generic, application-independent awareness mechanisms to fully support collaboration. In this work we present a distributed event-based awareness approach for P2P groupware systems. Unlike centralized approaches, several issues arise and need to be addressed for awareness in P2P groupware systems, due to their large-scale, dynamic and heterogenous nature. In our approach, the awareness of collaboration will be achieved by using primitive operations and services that are integrated into the P2P middleware. As a first step, we identify the major requirements for such an event-based awareness approac...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Fatos Xhafa, Alex Poulovassilis
• Keywords: AINA 2010, Awareness, Computer Networks, Event-based Awareness Approach, P2P Groupware Systems