Facilitating collaboration in a distributed software development environment using P2P architecture

This paper describes efforts to facilitate collaborative work in a distributed environment by providing infrastructure that facilitates the understanding of inter-connected processes involved and how they interact. In this work we describe how our agent-based framework supports these. This distributed work environment makes use of both P2P and client-server architectures. Using an example of developing an open source software system, we explain how a collaborative work environment can be achieved. In particular we address how the support for coordination, collaboration and communication are provided using our framework.UnpublishedCarl Gutwin , Reagan Penner , Kevin Schneider, Group awareness in distributed software development, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 06-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA Jon Froehlich , Paul Dourish, Unifying Artifacts and Activities in a Visual Tool for Distributed Software Development Teams, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering, p.387-396, May 23-28, 2004 Randy Guck, Managing Distributed Software Development,http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?ObjectId=6002&Function=DETAILBROWSE&ObjectType=ART, accessed on 20th January 2006 Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Mariusz Nowostawski, and Dan Carter, ‘Opal: A multi-level infrastructure for agent-oriented software development’, The information science discussion paper series no 2002/01, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2002). Jensen, K., Coloured Petri Nets - Basic Concepts, Analysis Methods and Practical Use, Vol. 1: Basic Concepts. EATCS Monographs on Theoretical Computer Science. 1992, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer Verlag GmbH. 1-234. Mariusz Nowostawski. JFern – Java based Petri Net framework, 2003. Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. and Cranefield, S, "KEA - Multi-Level Agent Infrastructure", Proceedings 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001), Krakow, Poland (2001) 355-362. Ehrler, L., Fleurke, M., Purvis, M. A. and Savarimuthu, B.T.R., “Agent-Based Workflow Management Systems(Wfmss) : JBees- A Distributed and Adaptive WFMS with Monitoring and Controlling Capabilities”, Journal of Information Systems and e-Business , ISSN: 1617-9846, Journal no. 10257, Volume 4, Springer, Berlin (2005), pp 5-22. Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Purvis, M.A., Purvis, M.K. and Cranefield, S., “Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)”, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005), A. Skowron, J. Barthes, L. Jain, P. Morizet-Mahoudeaux, J. Liu, and N. Zhong, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2415-X, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2005) 471-474. Bradshaw, J., An Introduction to Software Agents, in Software Agents, J. Bradshaw, Editor. 1997, MIT Press: Cambridge. p. 3-46. Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Haidar, A., and Savarimuthu, B. T. R., “A Distributed Workflow System with Autonomous Components”, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Barley, M. W. and Kasabov, N. (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3371, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-25340-8 Berlin (2005) 193-205. Wang, M., Wolf, H., Purvis, M. K., and Purvis, M., “An Agent-based Collaborative Framework for Mobile P2P Applications”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC’05), Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Despotovic, Z., Joseph, S., and Sartori, C. (eds.), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) 140-151. Purvis, M., Garside, N., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., and De Oliveira, M., “Multi-agent System Technology for P2P Applications on Small Portable Devices”, Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised and Invited Papers, G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi, K. Aberer (eds.) ISBN: 3-540-29755-3, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3601, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelber (2005) 153-160

Facilitating collaboration in a distributed software development environment using P2P architecture

This paper describes efforts to facilitate collaborative work in a distributed environment by providing infrastructure that facilitates the understanding of inter-connected processes involved and how they interact. In this work we describe how our agent-based framework supports these. This distributed work environment makes use of both P2P and client-server architectures. Using an example of developing an open source software system, we explain how a collaborative work environment can be achieved. In particular we address how the support for coordination, collaboration and communication are provided using our framework.UnpublishedCarl Gutwin , Reagan Penner , Kevin Schneider, Group awareness in distributed software development, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 06-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA Jon Froehlich , Paul Dourish, Unifying Artifacts and Activities in a Visual Tool for Distributed Software Development Teams, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering, p.387-396, May 23-28, 2004 Randy Guck, Managing Distributed Software Development,http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?ObjectId=6002&Function=DETAILBROWSE&ObjectType=ART, accessed on 20th January 2006 Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Mariusz Nowostawski, and Dan Carter, ‘Opal: A multi-level infrastructure for agent-oriented software development’, The information science discussion paper series no 2002/01, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2002). Jensen, K., Coloured Petri Nets - Basic Concepts, Analysis Methods and Practical Use, Vol. 1: Basic Concepts. EATCS Monographs on Theoretical Computer Science. 1992, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer Verlag GmbH. 1-234. Mariusz Nowostawski. JFern – Java based Petri Net framework, 2003. Nowostawski, M., Purvis, M. and Cranefield, S, "KEA - Multi-Level Agent Infrastructure", Proceedings 2nd International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2001), Krakow, Poland (2001) 355-362. Ehrler, L., Fleurke, M., Purvis, M. A. and Savarimuthu, B.T.R., “Agent-Based Workflow Management Systems(Wfmss) : JBees- A Distributed and Adaptive WFMS with Monitoring and Controlling Capabilities”, Journal of Information Systems and e-Business , ISSN: 1617-9846, Journal no. 10257, Volume 4, Springer, Berlin (2005), pp 5-22. Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Purvis, M.A., Purvis, M.K. and Cranefield, S., “Integrating Web Services with Agent Based Workflow Management System (WfMS)”, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005), A. Skowron, J. Barthes, L. Jain, P. Morizet-Mahoudeaux, J. Liu, and N. Zhong, (eds.), ISBN 0-7695-2415-X, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA (2005) 471-474. Bradshaw, J., An Introduction to Software Agents, in Software Agents, J. Bradshaw, Editor. 1997, MIT Press: Cambridge. p. 3-46. Purvis, M. A., Purvis, M. K., Haidar, A., and Savarimuthu, B. T. R., “A Distributed Workflow System with Autonomous Components”, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 7th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Barley, M. W. and Kasabov, N. (eds.) ISSN: 0302-9743, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3371, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-25340-8 Berlin (2005) 193-205. Wang, M., Wolf, H., Purvis, M. K., and Purvis, M., “An Agent-based Collaborative Framework for Mobile P2P Applications”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC’05), Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems, Despotovic, Z., Joseph, S., and Sartori, C. (eds.), Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005) 140-151. Purvis, M., Garside, N., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M., and De Oliveira, M., “Multi-agent System Technology for P2P Applications on Small Portable Devices”, Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised and Invited Papers, G. Moro, S. Bergamaschi, K. Aberer (eds.) ISBN: 3-540-29755-3, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3601, ISSN: 0302-9743, Springer-Verlag, Heidelber (2005) 153-160

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