economic situation in Japan and the macro policies they have followed. He presents his own view of desirable policy changes. Second is a summary of banking problems, including non-performing loans, bank failures and insolvencies. This, the longest section of the paper, comments on the policies and actions to deal with financial problems. Committee (Japan). The report correctly distinguishes bet...

Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs) are getting prominence these days. With the increase in the use of collaboration tools and technologies, a lot of sharing and privacy issues have also emerged. Due to its dynamic nature, a CWE needs to adapt the changes into accordingly. In this paper, we have implemented the Adaptive Dynamic Sharing and Privacy-aware Role Based Access Control (Adaptive...

In this paper we present Studierstube Workspace, an application framework which supports multiple users, multiple applications and multiple 3D and 2D interaction contexts in an augmented environment. We develop a design concept for collaborative working environments in virtual reality, especially the concept of multi-user aware applications and show how our implementation fits into this concept...

The aim of the paper is to present and discuss the main design concepts and principles, for a collaborative modelling environment for sciences addressed to young students 11–16 years old. The main issues under discussion concern central design questions such as: what must the main modelling primitives be when addressing young students, belonging to a wide range of cognitive possibilities? In wh...

This paper describes a collaborative multiagent modeling and simulation approach for designing work systems. The Brahms environment is used to model mission operations for a semi-autonomous robot mission to the Moon at the work practice level. It shows the impact of human-decision making on the activities and energy consumption of a robot. A collaborative work systems design methodology is desc...

We present an analysis of communication behavior in face-to-face collaboration using a multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) interface. We conducted two experiments. In the first, collaboration with AR technology was compared to more traditional unmediated and screen-based collaboration. In the second we compare collaboration with three different AR displays. Several measures are used to analyze co...

LATERAL SAFE is a subproject of the PREVENT Integrated Project cofunded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. LATERAL SAFE introduces a cluster of safety applications of the future vehicles in order to prevent lateral/rear related accidents and assist the driver in adverse or low visibility conditions and blind spot areas. LATERAL SAFE applications include a lateral and ...

The need to improve patient care by coordinating the activities of various health care providers has become a topic of increasing interest in the health care community.1–6 Practitioners from each discipline can use their specialized training and skills to make significant contributions to patient care. Pharmacists, for example, can provide the team with expertise needed to improve a patient’s d...

The use of 3D Virtual Worlds in the domain of cultural heritage represents a unique opportunity to accurately recreate historically significant sites as well as to provide a collaborative working environment for historians, archaeologists, designers and programmers. While most existing solutions are purely focused on reconstructing the architectural elements we also find it very important to pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper proposes an assessment approach for readiness in BPR efforts based on the critical success and failure factors. Design/methodology/approach – A relevant literature review, which investigates success and failure indic...