Communication control in computer supported cooperative work systems

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work table of contents

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Pages: 311 - 321

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-689-1

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Robert Simon	Departments of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Sclabassi	Neurological Surgery, Electrical Engineering and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Taieb Znati	Departments of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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This paper presents AlphaDeltaPhi-groups (ADP-group) as a communication tool for connection level management in distributed CSCW systems. In order to accurately model CSCW communication patterns, an ADP-group is a related set of cooperating processes whose communication is supported by allowing a spectrum of quality-of-service, message delivery reliability, atomicity and causal ordering options to co-exist within the same group. ADP-group communication provides appropriate connection management support and network control within distributed CSCW environments characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of equipment types, network performance and user activity levels. This efficiency is achieved by defining a small set of canonical group communication operations, by automatically making appropriate connections between data sources and sinks, and by using a receiver-based method of connection specification, monitoring and modification.

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