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Towards dynamic collaboration architectures

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In this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamically changing between centralized, replicated, and hybrid collaboration architectures. It is implemented by providing users a function that dynamically changes the mapping between user-interface and program components. We decompose the function into more primitive commands that are executed autonomously by individual users. These commands require a mechanism to dynamically replicate user-interface and program components on a user's site. We present a logging approach for implementing the mechanism that records input (output) messages sent to one incarnation of a program (user-interface) component, and replays the recorded messages to a different incarnation of the component. Preliminary experiments with an implementation of the mechanism show that response and completion times can improve by dynamically changing the architecture to adapt to changes to the set of users in a collaboration session involving a mix of mobile and stationary devices.

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CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
November 2004
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DOI:10.1145/1031607
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  1. ad-hoc collaboration
  2. application sharing
  3. collaboration architecture
  4. latecomers
  5. mobile collaboration

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