Distributed Information Coordination in Dynamic Heterogeneous Environments

In this paper we present an innovative approach to asynchronous information coordination in heterogenous, distributed and dynamic environments. Our goal is to support real-time collaboration and coordination among distributed, heterogeneous (wired and wireless) clients where the number of collaborating clients, their locations, capabilities and interests are dynamic. Our approach applies the “pull” knowledge management model to distributed information management by defining semantically enhanced messages and using state-based interactions techniques to communicate and replicate these messages. The appraoch underlies a Java based collaboration framework. The architecture of the framework and its experimental evaluation is presented.