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Record Nr.

UNISA996466082103316

Titolo

Coordination Technology for Collaborative Applications [[electronic resource] ] : Organizations, Processes, and Agents / / edited by Wolfram Conen, Gustaf Neumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998

ISBN

3-540-69699-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 356 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1364

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 arranged book concentrates on the relationships between coordination technology and business application requirements and introduces general elements of a cooperative infrastructure allowing for the construction of collaborative applications. It is essential reading for research and development professionals active in the area as well as for IT managers interested in applying this promising new technology in order to remain competitive in the future.