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@techreport{
1998-TR4CBL-10-Lavana,
author = "H. Lavana and F. Brglez and R. Reese and G. Konduri",
title  = "{OmniDesk/OmniFlow: An Agent-Based Architecture and a Toolkit
for Building Configurable and Collaborative Workflows of Heterogeneous
Applications and Data for the Web}",
institution = "{CBL, CS Dept., NCSU, Box 7550, Raleigh, NC 27695}",
number = "1998-TR4CBL-10-Lavana",
month  = "October", 
year   = "1998", 
note   = "{Also available at
{\tt http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/\-publications/\-\#1998-TR4CBL-10-Lavana}}",
abstract = "{
The increasing accessibility of heterogeneous `point tools' on the Web
raises the question on how to best encapsulate such tools in
order to create (1) simple-to-use workflows of task-specific tools and
data, (2) communication channels between distributed participants to
coordinate the collaborative control and execution of the workflow until
all pre-defined tasks are completed. This paper describes an
agent-based architecture
(OmniDesk) and a toolkit (OmniFlow) that support Web-based
user-configurable encapsulation environment and a GUI to create
domain-specific, {\em distributed and collaborative workflows} of
heterogeneous applications and data, all executable within a
Web-browser.
\par
~~The project is driven by two complementary drivers and is
beginning to demonstrate the promise, the  capability, and the
extensibility of OmniDesk/OmniFlow environment: (1) as a testbed for
distributed design of collaborative experiments for performance
evaluation of CAD algorithms, (2) as a testbed for distributed,
re-configurable, and collaborative workflows of university-based and
commercial tools to support a distributed design team in a
major VLSI design project.
Preliminary experiments demonstrate that the performance of the
proposed Web-based collaborative architecture is nearly
independent of the cross-continental distribution of
participants.
}",
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}