Adaptive collaboration in an ever-changing environment

Abstract

Traditional collaboration systems are typically bundled with a set of tools with pre-specified static workflow and usage patterns. They are found to be inflexible and incompetent for today’s heterogeneous and ever-changing collaboration contexts and computing environments. Today’s collaboration systems must be aware of the dynamic changes of collaboration contexts in a timely manner and be adaptive to these changes appropriately. In this paper, we illustrate how business logic and computing environment context awareness are provided through a set of shared ontologies with well-defined semantics in a project called as EkSarva. The awareness of collaboration contexts and its changes then enables the collaboration system to adapt to these changes and be more flexible. A dynamic workflow process is also facilitated by the context-awareness.