Rule-Based Message Passing for Collaborative Application in Distributed Environments

In this paper, we describe a rule-based message passing method to support developing collaborative applications, in which multiple users share resources in distributed environments. Message communications of applications in collaborative environments tend to be very complex because of the necessity to manage context situations such as sharing events, access controlling of users, and network places. In this paper, we propose a message communications method based on unification of artificial intelligence and logic programming for defining rules of such context information in a procedural object-oriented programming language. We also present an implementation of the method as java classes.

• Wataru Yamazaki
• Hironori Hiraishi
• Fumio Mizoguchi

• agent programming
• logic programming
• multi-media application
• collaborative application.

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