The Collaboration Management Infrastructure

1. Introduction The Collaboration Management Infrastructure (CMI) has been developed at MCC to manage collaboration processes in both traditional and virtual enterprises, and to provide combined process and situation awareness. CMI technology development is driven by the requirements of many advanced applications provided by the companies that are members of the consortial CMI project. Such advanced applications include crisis mitigation, command and control, logistics, and service provisioning in virtual enterprises. These applications are not effectively supported by existing workflow and groupware technologies. To address the requirements imposed by these applications CMI provides a sophisticated Collaboration Management Model (CMM) (Section 2) and a corresponding component-oriented system that implements the CMM (Section 3). CMM draws existing primitives from workflow and groupware models and introduces new primitives that address previously unsupported requirements of the CMI driver applications. In this demonstration, a crisis mitigation application will be presented that involves several process templates which are extended dynamically as details about the crisis become known (Section 4).