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| description |
There are several aspects involved in supporting human cooperative
work by computers. One of them concerns team awareness to avoid
unnecessary effort or even chaos. Notification services provide
suited information about other team members and team relevant
events. Traditionally, such services are realized by a central or
distributed approach but exhibit shortcomings with respect to
filtering policies and mobility of notified participants. A third
alternative consists in applying mobile software agents. In this
case, each participant is represented by one immobile and a number
of mobile agents. The immobile agent manages all events that are
caused by its user. Mobile agents are responsible to observe events
being caused by other team members. They communicate either remotely
or locally with managers of their partners. Advantages and
disadvantages of all possible mechanisms are discussed.
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| publisher |
Lafayette, Louisianna, USA: not available
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| type |
Text
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| Article in Proceedings
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| source |
In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer
Communications and Networks (IC3N'98), pp. 45-49
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| contributor |
Verteilte Systeme (IPVR)
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| subject |
Distributed Systems (CR C.2.4)
| | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems and Software (CR
H.3.4)
| | CSCW
| | team awareness
| | notification
| | mobile agents
| | mobile computing
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