N. Boulila,  A.H. Dutoit,  B. Bruegge D-Meeting: an Object-Oriented Framework for Supporting Distributed Modelling of Software International Workshop on Global Software Development, International Conference on Software Engineering. Portland, Oregon, May 9, 2003.(bib)
	The distributed development of software is increasingly common, driven by the globalization of companies and business and enabled by the improvements in communication and computing. The distributed development of software introduce new aspects of cooperative work in which a greater emphasis is placed upon technological support of the software development process. Tools to support distributed collaboration are at present limited to general-purpose groupware involving video, audio, chat, shared whiteboards and shared workspaces. However, we are not aware of any group support framework specialized for distributed software engineering. In this paper we focus on the development, evaluation, and refinement of the D-Meeting framework for supporting synchronous collaboration among distributed groups of developers. A prototype called D-UML groupware supports distributed software-modelling meetings by enabling real-time sharing and manipulation of information, the capture and management of rationale knowledge, in which different groups have access to different terminals (e.g., live board, desktop machine, handheld, interconnected over fixed or wireless local area networks). D-UML shows a potential enhancement for supporting distributed meetings.
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