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A Multimedia Session Manager Service for the Collaborative Browsing System

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Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2000)

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Browsing the Web is usually a lonely task. People visit sites, collect information and are not aware of other people looking at the same material, people with whom they could exchange experiences and ideas about the subject they are looking at. A Collaborative Browsing System (CoBrow) has been developed to bring awareness to the World Wide Web. CoBrow users can see other people looking at the same Web pages they are browsing. The Multimedia Session Manager (MSM) is one of the components that currently form CoBrow. It is responsible for initiating and managing multimedia sessions required by CoBrow users. This paper aims to describe the work performed by MSM in managing those users and their sessions.

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster

    Sandro Rafaeli & David Hutchison

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Laval University, 3908 Adrien-Pouliot, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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Rafaeli, S., Hutchison, D. (2000). A Multimedia Session Manager Service for the Collaborative Browsing System. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_4

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