In this paper we propose a CORBA based CSCW supporting platform which is a convenient environment for constructing CSCW systems. The platform provides general services as the infrastructure of CSCW systems. When developing cooperation applications for different purposes, besides considering the unique features each application requires, we have to deal with many functions needed by almost all t...

Cooperative business processes supporting the collaboration of companies and organizations are of increasing importance as they help to reduce the complexity of cooperation scenarios and optimize time and costs. More and more organizations use Internet technology such as Web services to support their cooperative business processes. Web services are an emerging technology to encapsulate services...

The spread of distributed multimedia applications is setting forth a new set of challenges in the management of host and network resources for guaranteeing QUALITY AND SERVICE (QoS). When the multimedia applications compete for resources, as in the case of a cooperative multimedia environment, the management task becomes even more difficult.We have developed a cooperative multimedia environment...

Product-related services in the capital goods industry are characterised by international customer demands. Often these demands can only be met efficiently by cooperating with other partners. However, the decisionmaking process for cooperation configuration still lacks adequate support. Existing approaches for evaluating cooperation and services are not suitable for an assessment of different a...

Designing and controlling cooperative applications composed from e-Services poses new and complex research problems. In the present paper, a model for specifying cooperative applications based on e-Services is proposed, which allows representing both statical and dynamic aspects of cooperating e-Services, and orchestration specifications in a dynamically evolving distributed environment. The ch...

Both the Cooperative Computing research group at NTT and the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT are carrying out research on theoretical foundations of distributed computing, with a focus on cooperative group activities in networks. Such group activities range from human social activities in cyber communities to powerful distributed applications involving data sharing and coope...

In order to provide electronic service delivery, several activities involving different public agencies need to be related and carried out in coordinated manner, thus resulting in a cooperative process. Currently, e-Service technologies seems to offer the enabling infrastructure for supporting cooperative process enactment, even at inter-country level. In this position paper, we outline the arc...

Both the Cooperative Computing research group at NTT and the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT are carrying out research on theoretical foundations of distributed computing, with a focus on cooperative group activities in networks. Such group activities range from human social activities in cyber communities to powerful distributed applications involving data sharing and coope...