Collaboration Bus: An Infrastructure for Supporting Interoperating Collaborative Systems

Prasun Dewan Kevin Jeffay Lars Nyland John Smith Dave Stotts University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hussein Abdel-Wahab Old Dominion University

John McHugh Portland State University

John Menges Hewlett Packard

PROPOSAL ABSTRACT

• Section I. Administrative
• A. Cover
• Section II. Summary of Proposal
• A. Innovative Claims
• B. Deliverables
• C. Cost, Schedule, and Milestones
• D. Technical Rationale and Approach
• Rationale
• Approach
• E. Previous Research
• F. Key Personnel
• Section III. Detailed Proposal Information
• A. Statement of Work
• B. Project Description
• Infrastructure Software
• Interconnection Experiments
• C. Technical Rationale
• D. Technical Approach
• Identification of Bus Clients
• Identification of Integration Scenarios
• Inter Service Interoperability
• Intra-Service Interoperability
• Bus Implementation
• Interfacing Existing Systems
• Evaluation
• E. Comparison with Other Ongoing Research
• F. Previous Accomplishments
• Infrastructure and Tools for Collaborative Software Engineering (Dewan)
• Real-Time and Multimedia Systems (Jeffay)
• Artifact Based Collaboration System (Smith and Jeffay)
• The XTV Shared Window System (Wahab and Jeffay)
• Flexible Shared Windows (Dewan, Jeffay, and Menges)
• Trellis (Stotts and Nyland)
• CAEDI (Stotts and Nyland)
• Security (McHugh)
• Direct Interoperation Experiments (Dewan and Stotts)
• Indirect VR Interoperation Experiments (Stotts)
• G. Facilities
• H. Summary of Qualifications
• I. Cost Breakdown
• Section 1V: Bibliography
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