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A Coordination Architecture for Internet Groupwork

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A Coordination Architecture for Internet Groupwork
This paper discusses a group coordination architecture to support Internet-wide distributed collaboration in the context of legacy Internet protocols. Group coordination in distributed systems and multimedia systems has many faces manifested in a variety of user interfaces and network protocols. To date, no standardized methodology for engineering group coordination protocols exists. We perceive coordination as the third complementary component in the trinity of group-communication services, next to membership and dissemination. With the current surge in e-commerce and Web-leveraged information exchange among users, the need for systems offering better telepresence and interaction capabilities becomes tangible. Services to support distributed group interaction at (near) real-time, with userspecified Quality-of-Service, and at Internet scope are of particular interest in this mosaic of telepresence and remote collaboration. In this paper, we propose a general group coordination archit...
Hans-Peter Dommel, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where EUROMICRO
Authors Hans-Peter Dommel, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
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