Collaboration Support for Activity Management in a Personal Cloud Environment

This paper describes a framework supporting the development of open collaboration environments which integrate heterogeneous business services. The framework facilitates the user cooperation in the execution of shared activities by offering a workspace awareness support which abstracts from the business services employed to operate. The management of the workspaces of the user's collaborations is based on the functions offered by the Collaborative Task Manager CTM, which offers a lightweight and flexible model for handling more or less complex collaborations. The CTM is integrated with business services in a loosely coupled way which supports the management of parallel workspaces for accessing the user's collaboration contexts, their objects and the related awareness information.

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