TheEvolve project: Component-based tailorability for CSCW applications |
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Authors: | Oliver Stiemerling Armin B Cremers |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, 53117 Bonn, Germany |
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Abstract: | Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of groupware systems owing to the dynamics and differentiation of cooperative work. This article investigates the use of software components as a generic architectural concept for designing tailorable groupware applications. First, the issues raised by this approach are discussed in the context of an exploratory experiment during which component-based tailorability was applied to a real tailoring problem in thePoliTeam project. The experiment's results led us to concentrate on questions concerning the support of distributed CSCW applications. As a consequence, we have developed theEvolve platform, whose design concepts are described. Furthermore, a concrete example for the application of the approach to the design of a tailorable distributed coordination tool is given. We discuss related work, summarise the current state of the component-based tailorability approach and propose venues of further research. |
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Keywords: | Coordination tool CSCW Software components Tailorability |
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