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Networked based distributed collaboration has become pervasive and makes today’s enterprises much more productive than ever before. The automation of the collaborative processes can be driven and managed by workflow rules. In addition, during recent years, ubiquitous computing and universal network connectivity have imposed another imperative requirement on collaboration systems. That is, remote participants with heterogeneous and dynamic connection and process capabilities should be able to join seamlessly in the collaboration at any time. Intelligent, context-aware, and workflow-centric collaboration is an essential prerequisite to fulfill that requirement. In this paper, we describe a generic framework, dubbed as EkSarva, which is capable of embedding workflow rules and context-awareness intelligence into collaborative sessions leading to increased opportunities for process automation
This research is partially supported by the Bell Atlantic Endowment at West Virginia University. The views herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporting agency.
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Yu, J., Reddy, Y.V.R., Selliah, S., Bharadwaj, V., Reddy, S., Kankanahalli, S. (2005). The Design of a Workflow-Centric, Context-Aware Framework to Support Heterogeneous Computing Environments in Collaboration. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11555223_3
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