Towards a functional characterization of collaborative systems

Abstract

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23734-8_30Proceedings of 8th International Conference, CDVE 2011, Hong Kong, China, September 11-14, 2011.In this paper we present major results of a detailed study about the functionalities that are present in different collaborative systems, realized as collaborative components. We have used this study to establish a methodology for the automatic generation of collaborative applications supporting group needs. The methodology is directed to any community of end users, who do not need to have any programming skills.This research was partly funded by the Spanish National Plan of R+D, project number TIN2008-02081/TIN and by the CAM (Autonomous Community of Madrid), project number S2009/TIC-1650