LEICA: loosely-coupled environment for integrating collaborative applications

• Published in: 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'05) pp. 635 - 639
• Main Authors: Gomes, R.L., de Jesus Hoyos Rivera, G., Courtiat, J.P.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Application software; Collaborative work; Computer applications; Conferences; Context-aware services; International collaboration; Ontologies; Scholarships; User interfaces; Web services
• ISBN: 9780769524245; 0769524249
• ISSN: 1529-4188; 2378-3915
• DOI: 10.1109/DEXA.2005.128

Group activities generally involve several people presenting different collaborative 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 with a common purpose, applications are executed independently. The integration of such applications would allow them to dynamically interoperate, combining their different functionalities in a controlled way. To achieve integration, we propose LEICA, a loosely-coupled integration environment which allows collaborative applications to interact without loosing their autonomy.