Supporting CSCW Applications with an Efficient Shared Information Space

Today most CSCW systems are built on top of standard operating systems. Only a few frameworks for generic support of CSCW applications exist. These platforms mostly concentrate on the management of workflows and on the layer on top of them, the CSCW applications. Little work is done in exploring the impacts of new networks onto support for CSCW. The project described in this paper focuses on providing CSCW applications with an efficient shared information space. Efficiency in this context means the utilization of network technology which offers much better services than today's networks.