Yet another framework for supporting mobile and collaborative work

This paper presents the design of YACO (Yet Another framework for Collaborative work), a framework for supporting mobile collaborative work. Mobile collaborative work has been increasing in popularity in business domain. Coworkers cooperate and share expertise across sites and domains, employees may move from a location to another carrying devices (such as PDAs and laptops) in which they store documents. The YACO framework that we have designed aims at exploiting the capabilities provided by an event-based system with support for mobile application in order to offer services to users that collaborates each other in a corporate domain.