Authors

 Dominique Decouchant1, Ana Mar´ ıa Mart´ ınez-Enr´ ıquez2, Jes´ us Favela3, Alberto L. Mor´ an1,4, Sonia Mendoza1, and Samir Jafar1

Abstract

This paper is directly focused on the design of middleware functions to support a distributed cooperative authoring environment on the World Wide Web. Using the advanced storage and access functions of the PINAS middleware, co-authors can produce fragmented and repli- ˜ cated documents in a structured, consistent and efficient way. However, despite it provides elaborated, concerted, secure and parameterizable cooperative editing support and mechanisms, this kind of applications requires a suited and efficient inter-application communication service to design and implement flexible, efficient, and adapted group awareness functionalities.

Keywords

Web cooperative authoring, distributed event management, DEMS, adaptive group awareness inference engine, AGAIE.