Large‐Scale Group Collaboration Systems
Lukasz Opyrchal, Atul Prakash · Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering · 2009
Abstract This article focuses on current and emerging distributed platforms that support large‐scale collaboration. These platforms include centralized web‐based systems as well as distributed peer‐to‐peer applications. We describe different technologies used to build large‐scale systems, the trade‐offs each technology makes, and some existing systems. The rest of this article is organized as follows: The section “Types of Architectures” describes different types of distributed systems and how each can be used to build large scale collaborative environments. “Overview of Existing Systems” describes several existing systems with collaborative features. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the article and presents a look at possible future of collaborative systems.