This paper introduces a novel method for measuring non-cooperation in dialogue. The key idea is that linguistic non-cooperation can be measured in terms of the extent to which dialogue participants deviate from conventions regarding the proper introduction and discharging of conversational obligations (e.g., the obligation to respond to a question). Previous work on non-cooperation has focused ...

Virtual Enterprises are an emerging model for the organization of innovative enterprises. They are characterized by brief relationships and geographical dispersion of members. E-collaboration tools play a critical role in the integration of such organizational systems. In particular these tools support both cooperation and coordination. Cooperation has been defined as the problem of aligning go...

Cooperative knowledge spaces create new potentials for the experimental fields in natural sciences and engineering because they enhance the accessibility of experimental setups through virtual laboratories and remote technology, opening them for collaborative and distributed usage. A concept for extending existing virtual knowledge spaces for the means of the technological disciplines (”ViCToR-...

Because of the inherent non-controllability of business services across different management domains, constructing virtual organizations, by creating service cooperation in Internet computing environment, has been confronted with the challenge of so-called “trust” crisis that the success and benefit of cooperation cannot be ensured. Thereby this paper proposes a model for Institution-Governed T...

Cooperative knowledge spaces create new potentials for the experimental fields in natural sciences and engineering because they enhance the accessibility of experimental setups through virtual laboratories and remote technology, opening them for collaborative and distributed usage. A concept for extending existing virtual knowledge spaces for the means of the technological disciplines ("ViCToR-...

In this paper, we researched on effects of knowledge resources to the enterprise cooperation innovation strategy select, and established an evolutionary game model of cooperative innovation between members of Virtual Industry Cluster. This study got some results like: the probability of cooperative strategy has positive correlation with income coefficient of knowledge resources and mutual confi...

The reorganization of the supply chain in the aerospace industry has led to a new situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). In order to react to the changed requirements, one possible solution is the project-oriented and temporary cooperation of SME by building a Virtual Company. This again presents the employees with new challenges regarding the work requirements. Within the rese...

Establishment of a computational grid by non-dedicated resources depends significantly on owners/users cooperation. Proposed human profiling model is targeted to increasing of resource availability. It includes parameters of human, platform, application and resource management procedure. Model parameters are collected by a web questionnaire and monitoring tools, respectively. Generated list of ...

Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this paper we identify requirements of Virtual Enterprise contracts, developing a normative framework for contract validation and enforcement. Furthermore, we enclose this conception within the structure of an Electronic Insti...