Introducing collaboration in single-user applications through the Centralized Control architecture

Ilaria Manno; Furio Belgiorno; Delfina Malandrino; Giuseppina Palmieri; Donato Pirozzi; Vittorio Scarano

6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing

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Introducing collaboration in single-user applications through the Centralized Control architecture

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    author={Ilaria Manno and Furio Belgiorno and Delfina Malandrino and Giuseppina Palmieri and Donato Pirozzi and Vittorio Scarano},
    title={Introducing collaboration in single-user applications through the Centralized Control architecture},
    proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2011},
    month={5},
    keywords={Collaboration Semantics Servers Shape Synchronization Variable speed drives},
    doi={10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.19}
}

Ilaria Manno
Furio Belgiorno
Delfina Malandrino
Giuseppina Palmieri
Donato Pirozzi
Vittorio Scarano
Year: 2011
Introducing collaboration in single-user applications through the Centralized Control architecture
COLLABORATECOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.19

Ilaria Manno¹^,*, Furio Belgiorno¹^,*, Delfina Malandrino¹^,*, Giuseppina Palmieri¹^,*, Donato Pirozzi¹, Vittorio Scarano¹^,*

1: ISISLab, Dip. di Informatica ed Applicazioni "R.M. Capocelli", Università di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), 84084, Italy

*Contact email: manno@dia.unisa.it, furbel@dia.unisa.it, delmal@dia.unisa.it, palmieri@dia.unisa.it, vitsca@dia.unisa.it

Abstract

In this paper we describe a novel Model-View-Controller based architecture, Centralized Control, that introduces collaboration in single-users applications. The architecture is able to add collaboration with no need to modify the source code of the original single-user application, and providing also the capability to introduce group semantics into the new, collaborative application that is obtained. The architecture is shown in practice, by introducing CollabXMind, a collaborative mind map tool, that is based on a well-known single-user tool, XMind.

Keywords: Collaboration Semantics Servers Shape Synchronization Variable speed drives

Published: 2011-05-12
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.19