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ARCHITECTURES FOR COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS
PRASUN DEWAN
PRASUN DEWAN
University of North Carolina
Abstract:
The architecture of a
collaborative application
is characterised by the
modules,
layers,
replicas,
threads,
and processes
into which the application is decomposed;
the awareness in these components of collaboration functions;
and the interaction among these components.
It influences the function,
fairness, fault tolerance,
ease of modification,
and performance of the application,
the amount of programming effort required to
implement the application,
and the reuse of existing single-user code.
We present here a design space of
existing and potential
collaboration architectures
and discuss the consequences of choosing different points
in this space.
Prasun Dewan
Wed Mar 3 11:45:04 EST 1999