Awareness-Enabled Coordination for Large Scale Collaboration Management

designed to address the problem of scaling collaboration to large multi-organizational teams. AEC provides a contextualization mechanism that helps its users deal with complex, real world environments where teams involve humans, tools, software services, and agents that come from different organizations, are subject to multiple jurisdictions, and provide diverse expertise. To provide efficiency in achieving team objectives, AEC provides process-based coordination and automation, ongoing policy enforcement, as well as situation and projectrelated awareness. To allow individuals, teams, and organizations to deal with dynamically changing situations, AEC permits dynamic adaptation of user activities, process, resources, policies, organizations, and teams at any time. We use examples from the homeland security and the intelligence gathering domains to illustrate these AEC technical capabilities and their benefits.