objects spaces, cooperation spaces and groups
This paper deals with system support for the design of CSCW environments. Our model introduces objects spaces shared by cooperating participants and cooperation spaces which group participants involved in a particular cooperation together. Objects spaces are only accessed via cooperation spaces. This makes our model strongly cooperation oriented. The Group notion structures our system, called OSACA. A group includes both cooperation spaces and objects spaces and represents a domain suitable for a cooperative activity. We investigate CORBA-compliant architectures to support this system level structuring tool.
groups objects systems distributed sets of applications cooperative work