A Collaborative Process-Centered Environment Kernel

The Collaborative Process-Centered Environment project (CPCE) aims at applying process modeling approach and technology to a given class of collaborative applications. The challenge is to deal with ne grain entities and interactions, and to provide the high level of adaptability and controlled exibility required by real world collaborative situations. The concept of a collaborative meta process model which drives the evolution of the executing collaborative process model, and the underlying object-oriented technology are two important aspects discussed in the paper.