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Services for Virtual Teams Hosting

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Virtual teams provider is an emerging business on the Internet. It allows people to work together distributed across space, time and organizations. This paper overviews and discusses a set of generic services requested to host a virtual team. These services and their integration are illustrated thanks to the ToxicFarm environment developed by the authors.

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Charoy, F., Godart, C., Molli, P., Oster, G., Patten, M., Valdes, M. (2003). Services for Virtual Teams Hosting. In: Chan, A.T.S., Chan, S.C.F., Leong, H.V., Ng, V.T.Y. (eds) Cooperative Internet Computing. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 729. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0435-1_11

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