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Eleventh IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'02)
A Flexible Architecture for Collaborative Browsing
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
June 10-June 12
ISBN: 0-7695-1748-X

Collaborative Browsing is a new and promising research area whose purpose is to provide new collaboration schemes among users browsing the Web.

To become an efficient collaboration tool, Collaborative Browsing should go far beyond a simple mechanism for coordinating the browsing of Web pages (like Web tours) and should include, in a integrated framework, awareness and communication facilities.

A general functional architecture of a Collaborative Browsing system is presented in the paper. It relies on a rule-based system that permits to precisely express the browsing and communication strategies among users of a collaborative session. The proposed architecture is therefore general-purpose. By defining the policy rules specifying the behavior of a collaborative session, it may be easily adapted to specific applications in the e-Learning or e-Business domains.

The general architecture of CoLab, a Java-based software environment implementing the proposed Collaborative Browsing system is introduced, and the features of its first operational version are presented in some details (CoLab 1.0).

Index Terms:
Collaborative, Browsing, Web, Policy rules, Proxy, Java
Citation:
Guillermo de Jesús Hoyos-Rivera, Roberta Lima-Gomes, Jean-Pierre Courtiat, "A Flexible Architecture for Collaborative Browsing," wetice, pp.164, Eleventh IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'02), 2002
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