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A service composition oriented framework for configuring SMeet multiparty collaboration environments

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To enable remote collaboration among knowledge workers, there has been extensive research about prototyping network-based multiparty collaboration environments. Particularly, it is necessary to solve the configuration difficulties that arise from different settings of various tools in traditional room-based collaboration systems. To ease these difficulties, in this paper, we design a service composition oriented framework for the SMeet (Smart Meeting Space) multiparty collaboration environments by following the SOA (service oriented architecture) design principles. The proposed framework aims to facilitate the flexible configuration of diverse networked devices and associated application tools for successful multiparty collaboration. According to a pre-defined template, it helps the operators and users to compose services that are dispersed across remote sites. By leveraging open-source agent middleware, we also develop a SMeet toolkit with GUIs (graphical user interfaces) to assist the easily-configurable realization of SMeet multiparty collaboration environments. The developed SMeet toolkit is utilized to realize a remote collaboration scenario between two SMeet prototype sites, by enabling the network-based interactive sharing of HD-quality media on networked tiled displays (NeTDs).

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  1. SMeet also requires upfront configuration effort, but we attempted to ease this difficulty by harmonizing automatic configuration (via template-based service composition) and manual configuration (via GUI-based service control).

  2. As of now, SMeet partially addresses the interoperability issues on several SMeet media-related services via agent-based wrapping.

  3. By adding, modifying, and removing service links in the template for service composition, an operator can influence the order of service instantiation and connection.

  4. It is possible to substitute SOAP for FIPA agent interaction protocols. But, by using the FIPA agent interaction protocol, we can extend simple request/response communications between services to complex communications such as the Contract Net protocol to support negotiation for task sharing with distributed agents [48], the brokering protocol to support brokerage interactions [46], and the publish and subscribe protocol to synchronize a portion of knowledge [10].

  5. Note that, the registry, implemented by the DF (directory facilitator) of JADE, has the IP addresses of devices and capabilities (i.e., service name, type, and role) of services.

  6. However, as of now, SMeet does not verify the complete release of all claimed resources yet.

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This work was supported by the 2nd Brain Korea 21 Project and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MEST) (No. 2011-0027558).

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Han, S.W., Kim, J. A service composition oriented framework for configuring SMeet multiparty collaboration environments. Multimed Tools Appl 68, 595–622 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1066-4

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