SilentMeet - A Prototype Mobile Application for Real-Time Automated Group-Based Collaboration

Today’s growing world of mobile devices offers all the necessary elements for developing collaborative mobile applications. However, this brings new challenges like how to handle the high complexity of efficient collaborative mechanisms or automatize part of the user’s interaction with the applications, as too many actions are required from the users in order to perform even the most basic operations. This paper describes an experimental mobile application, i.e., SilentMeet, that uses a rule-based middleware architecture for mobile devices and a new technique for exchanging information, for coordinating and for taking distributed decisions. More precisely, the application is designed to detect, based on collaboration, possible meetings or events with more than 2 participants and automatically switch the smartphone into silent mode. The goal of SilentMeet can be divided into 2 two main parts: 1) to develop a collaborative application with the help of rule-based systems; and 2) implement and evaluate Global Proactive Scenarios (GPaSs) in a real-case example.