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COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
GroupBanter: Supporting Serendipitous Group Conversations with IM
This paper describes GroupBanter, a tool for supporting serendipitous group conversations using instant messaging. We investigate the potential of ephemeral group conversations by ...
Kori Inkpen, Steve Whittaker, Mary Czerwinski, Rol...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Security through Collaboration in MANETs
It is well understood that Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are extremely susceptible to a variety of attacks, and traditional security mechanisms do not work well. Many security sc...
Wenjia Li, James Parker, Anupam Joshi
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Data Interoperability Problem as an Exemplary Case Study in the Development of Software Collaboration Environments
The Data Interoperability Problem appears in contexts where consumers need to peruse data owned by producers, and the syntax and/or semantics of such data—at both end points—ar...
Arturo J. Sánchez-Ruíz, Karthikeyan ...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Replication in Overlay Networks: A Multi-objective Optimization Approach
Recently, overlay network-based collaborative applications such as instant messaging, content sharing, and Internet telephony are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these appli...
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. ...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Access Control Model for Sharing Composite Electronic Health Records
The adoption of electronically formatted medical records, so called Electronic Health Records (EHRs), has become extremely important in healthcare systems to enable the exchange of...
Jing Jin, Gail-Joon Ahn, Michael J. Covington, Xin...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments
Abstract. We investigate a security framework for collaborative applications that relies on the role-based access control (RBAC) model. In our framework, roles are pre-defined and...
Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, Mirko...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Collaborative Search and User Privacy: How Can They Be Reconciled?
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böh...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Data Quality and Failures Characterization of Sensing Data in Environmental Applications
Environmental monitoring is one of the most important sensor network application domains. The success of those applications is determined by the quality of the collected data. Thu...
Kewei Sha, Guoxing Zhan, Safwan Al-Omari, Tim Cala...
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing
Abstract. Existing Peer to Peer (P2P) collaborative editing systems do not allow any user to undo any modification. However, in such systems, users are not aware of others’ modi...
Stéphane Weiss, Pascal Urso, Pascal Molli