International conference on enabling technologies: Infrastructure for collaborative enterprises (WETICE)

摘要

Organizational studies and analyses of distributed engineering processes and other cooperative activitiesrnin the areas of training, expertise or distance education show business needs into solutionsrnfor organizing their activities around a workspace that can be shared or distributed and virtual. Inrnthis era of global competitiveness, the economic space reflects a constantly reorganizing movement,rnin which companies are globalized and internationalized [1]. And this leads in both casesrnto an organization in teams, units or task forces increasingly geographically distributed. The proceduresrnfor design and engineering are being redefined to fit the new organization by anticipatingrnsolutions to avoid the disadvantages of this new organization, on one hand, and to benefit fromrnits advantages on the other hand. This resulted in a need for research on a new organization ofrngroup activities, new generic software used in various fields of activities and new architectures forrnsoftware specific to a particular area of activity. Different research areas are affected by this issuernand are classified under the multidisciplinary theme of collaborative enterprises. Several researchrnteams from the academic and industrial worlds have examined the emerging problems of the distributionrnof traditional engineering activities and the creation of new collaborative work procedures.rnContext-awareness in collaborative systems is being investigated for emergent technologies such asrnmachine to machine (M2M) technologies [2]. The multiplicity of requirements, both from the organizationalrnand software point of views, for these studies makes them a sought after multidisciplinaryrnfield in which we can distinguish different disciplines, different applications and different views forrneach discipline and for each application. Autonomic computing, and cloud computing [3], serviceorientedrnarchitecture and Web services for both real-time [4] and standard applications [5], as wellrnas aspect-oriented programming [6] are becoming key technologies for designing and implementingrncollaborative systems.