DY.M.A.CO.S. – DYNAMIC MOBILE AGENTS FOR COLLABORATION SYSTEMS
Dimosthenis Georgiadis · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2011
For many years collaboration between colleagues was been achieved with the conventional telephone, fax and regular mail.Over the last 10 years the way that colleagues communicate with each other changed dramatically.The huge internet spawning and multi-channel evolvement contribute to this transition providing new ways of communication like video conferencing systems, e-mails, forums and other collaborating systems.In addition, mobile wireless computing brings about a new paradigm of distributed computing in which communications may be achieved through wireless networks and users can continue computing even as they relocate from one support environment to another.Equally important, however, is the design and implementation of data management applications for these systems (e.g., wireless virtual teams) a task directly affected by the characteristics of the wireless medium, the limitations of mobile computing devices, and the resulting mobility of resources and computation.eHealth is a discipline that took over in the last years, establishing the need for providing dynamic working environments of different actors (medical professionals) promoting effective collaboration among the actors, including the patient, at any time, and any context (place).In this paper we will present a toolkit that creates virtual teams for collaboration systems with the use of mobile agents in eHealth.