Coordination Technology for Collaborative Applications Organizations, Processes, and Agents /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Conen, Wolfram (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Neumann, Gustaf (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1364
• Subjects: Software engineering.; Computer science.; Application software.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Computer Science, general.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; IT in Business.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.

Given the broad popularity of Internet technology, even in its present immature state, and also the recent progress made towards a human-centered view of information technology, the time now seems ripe to essentially extend the scope and power of enterprise information systems. This carefully arrang...

Table of Contents:

• A perspective on technology-assisted collaboration
• Coordination in knowledge-intensive organizations
• Co-ordination of management activities - Mapping organisational structure to the decision structure
• A cooperative approach to distributed applications engineering
• Towards logic programming based coordination in virtual worlds
• Enhancement of creative aspects of a daily conversation with a topic development agent
• Coordinating human and computer agents
• Coordination in workflow management systems - A rule-based approach
• A framework and mathematical model for collaboration technology
• Practical experiences and requirements on workflow
• Coordination science: Challenges and directions
• Supporting autonomous work and reintegration in collaborative systems
• Workspace awareness for distributed teams
• GeM and WeBUSE: Towards a WWW-database interface
• Post-client/server coordination tools
• An experimental delay analysis for local audio video streams for desktop collaborations
• Supporting both client-server and peer-to-peer models in a framework of a distributed object management system.