LaCOLLA: Middleware for Self-Sufficient Online Collaboration

Joan Manuel Marquès (1) , Xavier Vilajosana (1) , Thanasis Daradoumis (1) , Leandro Navarro (2)

1 DPCS - Distributed Parallel and Collaborative Systems
2 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona]

The LaCOLLA middleware makes it possible for collaborators to interact using their own resources and not depend on a centralized regime. By contributing their own resources, group members can organize and communicate using a federated peer-to-peer model. Utilizing LaCOLLA middleware, the group can function regardless of whether a member removes resources and despite network or node failures or disconnection. This capacity for self-organization, together with location transparency, lets application developers create self-sufficient applications for collaborative activity. LaCOLLA overcomes the limitations of traditional clientserver architectures by supporting self-sufficiency, availability, and self-organization. (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2007.43 )

Keywords: learning grids; agents; peer to peer agents

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Joan Manuel Marquès, Xavier Vilajosana, Thanasis Daradoumis, Leandro Navarro. LaCOLLA: Middleware for Self-Sufficient Online Collaboration. Internet Computing, 2007, 11(2), pp.56-64. ⟨10.1109/MIC.2007.43⟩. ⟨hal-00190803⟩