The WORKPAD project aims at designing and developing an innovative software infrastructure (software, models, services, etc.) for supporting collaborative work of human operators in emergency/disaster scenarios. In such scenarios, different teams, belonging to different organizations, need to collaborate with one other to reach a common goal; each team member is equipped with handheld devices (PDAs) and communication technologies, and should carry on specific tasks. In such a case we can consider the whole team as carrying on a process, and the different teams (of the different organizations) collaborate through the exchange of integrated data and content provided by some back-end centres, thus supporting inter-organizational coordination (macro-processes). The project will investigate a 2-level framework for such scenarios: a back-end peer-to-peer community, providing advanced services, data & knowledge & content integration, and a set of front-end peer-to-peer communities, that provide services to human workers, mainly by adaptively enacting processes on mobile ad-hoc networks.

PDA Devices: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

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