This paper comes back to the problem of coordination of cooperative activities with a Workflow management system. First, we describe the differences that we have noted between business processes and cooperative processes. Then we present a set of requirements for a Workflow management system that aims to support cooperative workflow, and among these requirements are high flexibility and dynamic...

Given the role that knowledge management can play consistently on the changes and the need to develop human resources in the implementation of knowledge management on the one hand and important position of cooperative sector In country economics, on the other hand, led to that the researchers study the relationship between knowledge management and human resource performance of the agricultural ...

In this paper, we present the development of an advanced open source multi-lingual cooperative portal system (ASPICO) dedicated to semantic management, and to cooperative exchange for research and education purpose on digital cultural projects. Advantages of using ASPICO include greater flexibility for digital resource management, generic and systematic ontology-based metadata management, and b...

Beneficiaries of common pool resources (CPRs) may select available noncooperative and regulatory exogenous institutions for managing the resource, as well as cooperative management institutions. All these institutions may increase the longterm gains, prolong the life of the resource, and help to escape the tragedy of the commons’ trap. Cooperative game theory approaches can serve as the backbon...

Cooperative knowledge areas are a well-proved approach to support process of cooperative work and ELearning. The Paderborn Open-Source system sTeam establishes cooperative knowledge spaces so far as a single server implementation. This paper presents our architecture of distributed cooperative knowledge areas. The main conceptual idea of the sTeam system is a combination of a document managemen...

one of the main problems in the quality control of rivers is the high control cost imposed upon pollutant units. the cooperative policy approach in the treatment process between two or more pollutant units is a new and economic perspective in the environmental management of catchment basins. origins of large amounts pollutants which require a high cost to control pollution are trying to start p...

As demands for limited natural resources increase, developing management institutions that ensure the sustainability of such resources is essential. Natural resources are Common Pool Resources (CPRs), managed under different noncooperative, cooperative, and externally imposed management frameworks. While early studies of non-cooperative CPR management suggest inevitable “tragedy of the commons,...

While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.

This paper aims to make intelligible some important notions such as « Viewpoint » and « Correlation of Viewpoints » and to show the necessity to take into account these notions in order to analyze any cooperative design activity or to support it. After a brief introduction, Section 2 describes our model of Viewpoint based on an argumentative approach of the design activity and five types of Des...

This paper introduces a mechanism coping with cooperative work in developing and maintaning software artifacts in a multi-user engineering environment. For the long time it has been a problem to handle parallel activities on shared or interdependent products. The required mechanism must be sufficiently flexible to support concurrent updates so that none of new updates will be lost, nor lots of ...