Formalization of computer supported cooperative work applications

Author

Chang, Carl K. ; Zhang, Jia ; Jiang, Tsang Ming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

185

Lastpage

191

Abstract

From its first appearance in 1984, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has attracted a lot of research attention in distributed systems. Over the past decade, the CSCW community has developed a number of experimental systems and commercial products to support collaboration. However, much of the reported work is highly application-specific. There generally lacks a sound infrastructure to support the development of a wide variety of CSCW applications. It is essential to formalize the collaboration concepts, model the cooperative and communicative activities, erect CSCW-oriented architectures, and construct a flexible and extendable development environment for building CSCW applications

Keywords

groupware; CSCW-oriented architectures; collaboration concepts; communicative activities; computer supported cooperative work applications; cooperative activities; development environment; distributed systems; infrastructure; Access control; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer applications; Computer science; Distributed computing; Human computer interaction; Permission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2001. FTDCS 2001. Proceedings. The Eighth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1384-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.2001.969640

Filename

969640