Lightweight Technologies for Knowledge Based Collaborative Applications

The paper describes ways to use collaborative technologies to support activities in knowledge based processes. It stresses the importance of matching the technology to the activity. It also defines that activities change to the process and the technology must coevolve with the processes by providing services that change as the process evolves. The paper defines the technologies needed at the different activities together with a platform to support these services and ways for the services to coevolve with the process. A prototype based on workspace technology showing such evolution is described.