Abstract

Efficiency oriented activities require some people to collaborate in order to achieve better results. People, who don't necessarily know to each other, need to be organized, communicated, and coordinated effectively to achieve a successful outcome. Today's technological advances permit to set up a group of handheld and wireless devices as a network infrastructure for the development of applications to satisfy the mentioned needs. We have designed a agent-based middleware to develop applications that consider not only knowledge and skills of the participants but also physical distance and psycho-social characteristics. In order to explain how to support spontaneous collaboration among people different situations, we describe how to build some kind of applications using the developed middleware. We expect to obtain a tool which not only can provide an adequate communication medium or enhance productivity in developing applications, but also becomes a facilitator of collaboration.