The DreamTeam Project

Project Description

CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) applications are playing a major role in distance education, e.g. for group discussions, jointly working on electronic courses, jointly visiting Web pages, remote laboratories, video conferencing, joint program development, co-operative publishing etc.
Two different kinds of CSCW systems exist:

with asynchronous systems participants can collaborate independently, i.e. it is not necessary to meet at a specific time. Thus group members are only slightly coupled. Examples are bulletin boards and mail systems.
with synchronous systems participants join a session at a specific time, collaboration is more intensive. Examples are shared whiteboard systems and conference tools.

DreamTeam is an environment for developing, synchronous shared applications. The DreamTeam environment allows the developer co-operative applications like single user applications, without struggling with network details, synchronisations algorithms etc. The environment consists of three components:

a development environment,
a runtime environment,
a simulation environment.

DreamTeam is entirely written in Java, thus runnable on many systems.
A screenshot tour gives an impression of the DreamTeam front end and a few shared applications.
A DreamTeam add-on, called DreamObjects, simplifies the management of shared data. It extends the DreamTeam runtime and development environment and offers a variety of shared data services.

DreamTeam Papers

The following list contains papers which are directly related to the DreamTeam project. A list of all publications of Jörg Roth can be found here.

2003

Jörg Roth:
The Resource Framework for Mobile Applications
in Olivier Camp, Joaquim B.L. Filipe, Slimane Hammoudi, Mario G. Piattini (eds), Enterprise Information Systems V, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nov. 2003
(selected paper of the ICEIS 2003)

Jörg Roth:
The Resource Framework for Mobile Applications
ICEIS 2003, 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, April 23-26, 2003, Angers, France, Vol. 4, 87-94

2002

Jörg Roth:
A Communication Middleware for Mobile and Ad-hoc Scenarios
International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'02), June 24-27 2002, Las Vegas (USA), Vol. I, 77-84

Jörg Roth:
Mobility Support for Replicated Real-time Applications
Innovative Internet Computing Systems (I2CS), Kühlungsborn (Germany), June 20-22 2002, LNCS 2346, Springer, 181-192

Jörg Roth:
Ein Anwendungsrahmenwerk für synchrone kollaborative Anwendungen in mobilen Umgebungen
Informatik Bericht 292, Fernuniversität Hagen, April 2002

2001

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
Using handheld devices in synchronous collaborative scenarios
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 5, Issue 4, Springer, 2001, 243-252

Stephan Lukosch, Jörg Roth:
Reusing Single-user Applications to Create Multi-user Internet Applications
Innovative Internet Computing Systems (I2CS), Ilmenau, Germany, June 21-22 2001, LNCS 2060, Springer, 79-90

Jörg Roth:
Information sharing with handheld appliances
8th IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI'01),
Toronto, Canada, 11.-13. May 2001, LNCS 2254, Springer, 263-279

2000

Jörg Roth:
A taxonomy for synchronous groupware architectures
Workshop on Software Architectures for Cooperative Systems, hosted by IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4,
Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, 1. Dec. 2000

Jörg Roth:
Entwicklungs- und Laufzeitunterstützung für synchrone Groupware
GI Informatiktage 2000, Bad Schussenried, 27.-28. Oct. 2000, Konradin, 196-198

Jörg Roth:
Entwicklungs- und Laufzeitunterstützung für synchrone Groupware
dissertation.de, Berlin, 2000

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
Using handheld devices in synchronous collaborative scenarios
Second International Symposion on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing 2000 (HUC2K), Bristol (UK), 25.-27. Sept. 2000, LNCS 1927, Springer, 187-199

Stephan Lukosch, Jörg Roth:
Developing Synchronous Groupware for Learning Environments
Proceedings of the EADTU Millenium Conference, Paris (France), Sept. 28-30, 2000, 89-92

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
An extensible classification model for distribution architectures of synchronous groupware
in Dieng R. et al. (eds): Fourth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP2000),
Sophia Antipolis (France), 23.-26. Mai 2000, IOS Press, 113-127

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
Developing synchronous collaborative applications with TeamComponents
in Dieng R. et al. (eds): Fourth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP2000),
Sophia Antipolis (France), 23.-26. Mai 2000, IOS Press, 353-368

Jörg Roth:
DreamTeam - A Platform for Synchronous Collaborative Applications
AI & Society (2000) Vol. 14, No. 1, Springer London, March 2000, 98-119

1999

Stephan Lukosch, Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
Marrying on-campus teaching to distance teaching
Proceedings of the 19th world conference on open learning and distance education, Vienna, 20.-24. June 1999

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
Group Rendezvous in a Synchronous, Collaborative Environment
in R. Steinmetz (ed): Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS'99), 11. ITG/VDE Fachtagung, Springer, 2.-5. March 1999, 114-127

1998

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
DreamTeam - A Platform for Synchronous Collaborative Applications
in Th. Herrmann, K. Just-Hahn (eds): Groupware und organisatorische Innovation (D-CSCW'98), B. G. Teubner Stuttgart, Leipzig, 1998, 153-165

Jörg Roth:
CSCW Internet Tools and Environments for Distance Education
Contribution to VirtUE - a Virtual University for Europe, 1998

Jörg Roth, Claus Unger:
DreamTeam - A Synchronous CSCW Environment for Distance Education
Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA / ED-TELECOM 98, June 1998, 1185-1190

1997

Jörg Roth:
"DreamView" - ein kooperativer Webbrowser für eine synchrone CSCW-Umgebung
Informatik Bericht 221, Fernuniversität Hagen, Nov. 1997

Jörg Roth:
"DreamTeam" - eine synchrone CSCW-Plattform für heterogene Umgebungen
Informatik Bericht 218, Fernuniversität Hagen, Mai 1997