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22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '02)
TWSAPI: A Generic Teamwork Services Application Programming Interface
Vienna, Austria
July 02-July 05
ISBN: 0-7695-1588-6
Engin Kirda, Technical University of Vienna
Gerald Reif, Technical University of Vienna
Harald Gall, Technical University of Vienna
Pascal Fenkam, Technical University of Vienna
One of the problems faced by large, global organizations and enterprises is to effectively enable their employees to collaborate across locations. People need collaborative work support while they are on the move and have to share business documents and know-how. Although much work has been done in the area of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) to date, supporting mobility is only recently receiving attention. Hence, most of the existing approaches do not deal with emerging mobile teamwork requirements such as locating business documents and expertise through distributed searches, advanced subscription and notification, community building, and mobile information sharing and access. Furthermore, existing applications and approaches are usually difficult to customize to business-specific processes and requirements. The MObile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organizations Networking (MOTION)1 system addresses these requirements and provides a generic teamwork services Application Programming Interface (API), TWSAPI, that can be used to build organization-specific collaborative applications. In this paper, we give an overview of the MOTION TWSAPI and illustrate its usage in building an application that provides document review support.
Index Terms:
MOTION, Mobile Teamworking, Information and Communication Technology Architecture, Mobile Computing
Citation:
Engin Kirda, Gerald Reif, Harald Gall, Pascal Fenkam, "TWSAPI: A Generic Teamwork Services Application Programming Interface," icdcsw, pp.365, 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '02), 2002
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