This paper discusses the current practice in business information and office automation systems in particular with respect to collaborative development. While from an architectural point of view the predominant monolithic structure of business information systems hinders collaboration, the distributed architecture of office automation systems promotes it. We will sketch an architecture where of...

We developed a framework that assists in capturing the differences between two organizations. Collaborative distance captures the degree of similarity between the cooperating organizations across four separate levels of analysis: sector, organization, functional, and individual. Organizations that are very similar to each other are said to have “low collaborative distance” and organizations tha...

This paper presents a distributed N-body method based on an adaptive collaborative system model. The collaborative system is built with the distributed objects in a cluster. It can be reconfigured during the computation to fully utilize the computing power of the cluster. The method is implemented in Java and RMI to support distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms. A distributed tree st...

Virtual collaborative activities have the potential to keep students engaged, create a sense of community in online courses and allow them to experience and practice virtual teamwork skills. This study presents an attempt to explore students’ perceptions of online collaborative learning involving both process and product oriented activities. The online collaborative activities were used in the ...

In team Markov games research, it is difficult for an individual agent to calculate the reward of collaborative agents dynamically. We present a coordination tree structure whose nodes are agent subsets or an agent. Two kinds of weights of a tree are defined which describe the cost of an agent collaborating with an agent subset. We can calculate a collaborative agent subset and its minimal cost...

Although the technology exists to provide collaborative distance learning and training through electronic networks and groupware, little is currently known about appropriate ways in which to structure these learning environments. This article describes two research projects using groupware for collaborative learning activities. The first was a graduate business course conducted entirely online ...

Macro scripts structure collaborative learning and foster the emergence of knowledge-productive interactions such as argumentation, explanations and mutual regulation. We propose a pedagogical model for the designing of scripts and illustrate this model using three scripts. In brief, a script disturbs the natural convergence of a team and in doing so increases the intensity of interaction requi...

This thesis proposes a general structure for knowledge sharing to represent knowledge that allows a group of users to share concept meanings and their relations and to organise information about a specific knowledge theme or context. Recently, many developments were introduced for presenting information concerning the use of visualisation techniques, including 3D interactive visualisations and ...

Over the last two decades, the academia has engaged in intense research in trying to understand the mechanics of group processes and how computer supported collaborative work could be used to enhance knowledge acquisition, assimilation and sharing for increased and better quality of work group outputs in group settings. In recent years, wikis have become quite popular in collaboration activitie...

Collaborative information retrieval is an area of increasing interest. However, the wider sensemaking context in which it occurs is understudied. Furthermore, the role of users’ beliefs about the domain they are querying, its structure, stability, complexity, and justifications – their epistemic beliefs – has been little studied in either individual or collaborative IR software development cont...