CASMAS: An agent-based support for modulated participation in cooperative applications

This paper proposes CASMAS: an agent-based model to design an environment of collaborative applications by taking into account the notion of community. Within this model, communities are characterized by declarative rules that express and shape the participative behavior of the community members. The degree of participation of each member can dynamically change according to her physical location and her position in the logical space of the applications used within the community. The paper shows how this approach can facilitate the design of collaborative applications that are community-aware, that is augmented with mechanisms by which to manage different levels of participation of the community members.