During this working group, we gathered a set of guidelines for establishing and maintaining fruitful industry-research collaborations. We divided these guidelines into the collaboration phase (awareness, contact, setup, and research, as will be defined) and, within each phase, to whom the guideline applied (researchers, practitioners, or both). The agreed-upon deliverable from this session was ...

Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an inevitable function in most manufacturing companies in order to develop their own product niches for their...

Each year mathematicians publish more than 50,000 research papers. Since 1940, Mathematical Reviews (MR; available electronically on the World Wide Web as MathSciNet [8]) has catalogued most of them, and MR’s current database contains more than one and a half million items, produced by more than a third of a million authors. By studying this wealth of data, we can discern some interesting patte...

Constraint programming is an emergent technology that allows modeling and solving various problems in many areas such as artificial intelligence, computer programming, computeraided design, computer graphics, and user interfaces. In this report, we recount the recent activities of research collaboration on constraint programming conducted by the authors and other researchers in France and Japan...

The term e-collaboration refers to collaboration among individuals involved in the execution of common tasks using electronic technologies (Kock, 2005, 2007). Therefore, e-collaboration can be seen as a broad term that refers to a range of technology-supported activities, such as those using computer-mediated communication technologies, telephone and telephone-like devices, and group support sy...

Humans will soon need to adapt to a collaborative setting in which technology becomes a smart collaboration partner that works with a group to achieve its goals. It is therefore time for collaboration researchers to explore the vast opportunities afforded by smart technology and to test its utility for enhancing team processes and outcomes. In this paper, we take a long view on the implications...

Abstract—The pathophysiology of stroke is complex. Adaptive and maladaptive signalling occurs between multiple cell types in the brain. There is crosstalk between central and systemic responses. And there are overlapping pathways during initial injury and subsequent repair. These numerous feed-forward and feed-back interactions have made it difficult to translate experimental discoveries into c...

This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It will describe ongoing research into personalization within a collaborative environment intended as a “virtual campus”. As part of this research we will provide initial reports on a project that is developing collaborative...

Collaboration and competition are strong driving forces in the modem search for exoplanets. It appears among individuals, agencies and nations, as well as between observing techniques and theoretical interpretation. I will argue that these forces, taken in balance, are beneficial to the field and are partly responsible for the rapid progress in the search for planets and ultimately the search f...