A co-operative application management platform based on shared virtual memory

Studying the different mechanisms specific to co-operative applications, we think that a co-operative application management platform is needed. Context sharing being one of the main concepts of co-operation, we propose an environment based on shared virtual memory. To clearly identify the various concepts used in every co-operative system, we define our system with four layers: the interprocess communications layers, the shared memory layer, the services layer and the co-operative distributed application layer. We show how these four layers are complementary and allow to optimize the co-operation management in order to allow users transparent access