Virtual meeting interoperability: Discussing the need of support for heterogeneous meeting environments

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作者：
Johansson, Christian [1 ]
Larsson, Andreas [1 ]
机构：
[1] Lulea Univ Technol, Div Comp Aided Design, SE-97187 Lulea, Sweden
来源：
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH IASTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING | 2006年
关键词：
web-based collaboration; virtual meetings; heterogeneous interoperability; web services;
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TP18 [人工智能理论];
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081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要：
With more projects in today's industry being global it is important to support the people collaborating in these projects. Travel is expensive and time consuming and is not viable in the long run. Although some travel is necessary it is important for people to meet virtually instead. In many cases it is difficult for companies to collaborate because they do not use the same tools for these virtual meetings. Due to restrictions with IT security it is also difficult and expensive to implement every new tool their partner companies use. One solution could be a portal that facilitates connecting users with different virtual meeting tools. Using Web Services to bridge the different protocols it would be possible to connect two software packages that are using different standards for virtual meetings. With a tool as this it would be possible for chosen companies to collaborate closely online although they have incompatible software packages. Companies can select their solutions on the basis of their needs and do not have to implement a new solution or modify their existing setup to accommodate new partner needs. Finally, people would only need to learn the one tool which is available in their own company.
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