An Abstract Architecture for Service Coordination in IP2P Environments

Cesar Caceres, Alberto Fernandez, Sascha Ossowski, Matteo Vasirani

2006

Abstract

Intelligent agent-based peer-to-peer (IP2P) environments provide a means for pervasively providing and flexibly co-ordinating ubiquitous business application services to the mobile users and workers in the dynamically changing contexts of open, large-scale, and pervasive settings. In this paper, we present an abstract architecture for service delivery and coordination in IP2P environments that has been developed within the CASCOM project. Furthermore, we outline the potential benefits of a role-based interaction modelling approach for a concrete application of this abstract architecture based on a real-world scenario for emergency assistance in the healthcare domain.

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Caceres C., Fernandez A., Ossowski S. and Vasirani M. (2006). An Abstract Architecture for Service Coordination in IP2P Environments . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-53-5, pages 13-22. DOI: 10.5220/0002501100130022


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csac06,
author={Cesar Caceres and Alberto Fernandez and Sascha Ossowski and Matteo Vasirani},
title={An Abstract Architecture for Service Coordination in IP2P Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={13-22},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002501100130022},
isbn={978-972-8865-53-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - An Abstract Architecture for Service Coordination in IP2P Environments
SN - 978-972-8865-53-5
AU - Caceres C.
AU - Fernandez A.
AU - Ossowski S.
AU - Vasirani M.
PY - 2006
SP - 13
EP - 22
DO - 10.5220/0002501100130022