Study Case: Distributed Groupware and Collaborative Web Agents

Although groupware and collaborative Web agents have been researched during the last few years, but this combination have not been widely researched. Groupware applications would seem to have a lot of benefit by leveraging off of Web service standards, one of them is support Web computing to support access with Web browsers. Whereas the goal of "Web computing" has been supported group work on the Web, Web services support for groupware which has the goal to provide interoperability between many groupware systems. Besides that, Web search tools is also supported by groupware system but the previous Web search tool do not utilize previous search experiences of others to improve performance for the current user. In this paper, we present a collaborative Web agent designed to enable across-user collaboration in Web search and recommendation. We use our distributed collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm based on a P2P overlay network of autonomous agents.