LEICA: Loosely-Coupled Environment for Integrating Collaborative Applications

Collaboration activities usually involve several people presenting different group tasks and requirements. Accordingly, collaboration is rarely supported by a single CSCW technology. Different types of collaborative applications are then applied in order to support group work. But in spite of being used to accomplish a common collaboration task, these applications are executed independently without getting any advantage of each other. The integration of such applications would allow them to dynamically interoperate, combining their different functionalities in a controlled way. In order to achieve integration, we propose LEICA, a looselycoupled integration environment which allows collaborative applications to interact without loosing their autonomy. LEICA relies on Web services technology, event notification system, and collaboration policies for controlling interactions between integrated applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Roberta Lima-Gomes, Guillermo de Jesús Hoyos-Rivera, Jean-Pierre Courtiat
• Keywords: Collaboration, Collaborative Applications, Common Collaboration Task, Database, DEXAW 2005