Abstract: This article describes a structuring of groupware services that allows end users to orchestrate the provided services in order to match their collaboration patterns. Our approach is based on the notion that different forms of collaboration require different combinations of groupware

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with collaborators. • They can help teachers create and manage learning tasks that are carried out both in the classroom and at a distance. • How should these emerging technologies be successfully integrated in current teaching practice? APPROACH • From a technological perspective, to integrate collaborative

Abstract—Grid services exploit an emerging distributed computing technology that offers possibilities for distributed resource sharing and collaboration. The standards for WSRF (Web Service Resource Framework) have allowed grid services to converge more closely on web services. Composing web

The paper presents an approach for orchestrating validation of project results from different perspectives by using visual modelling techniques. The context for the paper is the FP6 project MAPPER. Validation in MAPPER covers economic, socio-technical and technical viewpoints. The economic

and well-being. Effective treatment of persistent pain requires the highest level of clinical reasoning, selectively coordinated medical skills, the strategic use of resources, and the orchestration of diverse areas of medical expertise. In order to close the gap between existing care and the potential

The transition to electronic business has brought many changes in the business process. First steps in making business on the web have been web services, however the requirements for realization of multiple collaborations and automations are no longer satisfied simply by web services. New, more

service external interfaces. Collabo-ration diagrams describe the structural composition of ser-vices. And activity diagrams describe the orchestration of services. The main contribution of this article is to mix the orches-tration and composition meta-model with a context meta-model. Thus, we propose

an experienced teacher engaged students formally assessed as "learning disabled " in the collaborative editing of a writ-ten text. Analyses suggest that one group of teacher utterances served to orchestrate students ’ participation in the repair of the text while a second group of utterances seemed