loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'05) Volume 1 (AINA papers)
CoLab: A Flexible Collaborative Web Browsing Tool
Taipei, Taiwan
March 25-March 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2249-1

Collaborative Web Browsing aims at extending currently available Web browsing capabilities in order to allow several users getting their browsing activity synchronized. This is a new and promising research area whose possibilities have not yet been exhaustively covered.

From our point of view a Collaborative Web Browsing system should provide all the necessary facilities to allow users to get synchronized and desynchronized in a flexible way. Synchronization relies on a simple authorization protocol through which users can invite other users to create and release browsing synchronization relations. Additionally, special synchronization operators, intended to be used by privileged users, are also proposed with the purpose of overriding the authorization protocol.

In this paper we present our proposal for modeling and implementing a Collaborative Web Browsing system called CoLab [1], which has been developed using Java™ technology; we present the main features of our current development prototype: CoLab 2.0.

Index Terms:
Collaborative, Web, Browsing, Protocol, Synchronization
Citation:
Guillermo de Jes? Hoyos-Rivera, Roberta Lima-Gomes, Jean-Pierre Courtiat, "CoLab: A Flexible Collaborative Web Browsing Tool," aina, vol. 1, pp.501-506, 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'05) Volume 1 (AINA papers), 2005
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.