Affiliations: [a] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61761, USA | [b] SIPLab, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA | [c] College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Qianwei Road No.10, Changchun, Jilin 130012, China
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.
