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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.
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Purvis, M., Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B.T.R. (2008). Facilitating Collaboration in a Distributed Software Development Environment Using P2P Architecture. In: Joseph, S., Despotovic, Z., Moro, G., Bergamaschi, S. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79705-0_16
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