This paper describes a collaborative multiagent modeling and simulation approach for designing work systems. The Brahms environment is used to model mission operations for a semi-autonomous robot mission to the Moon at the work practice level. It shows the impact of human-decision making on the activities and energy consumption of a robot. A collaborative work systems design methodology is desc...

We present an analysis of communication behavior in face-to-face collaboration using a multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) interface. We conducted two experiments. In the first, collaboration with AR technology was compared to more traditional unmediated and screen-based collaboration. In the second we compare collaboration with three different AR displays. Several measures are used to analyze co...

The need to improve patient care by coordinating the activities of various health care providers has become a topic of increasing interest in the health care community.1–6 Practitioners from each discipline can use their specialized training and skills to make significant contributions to patient care. Pharmacists, for example, can provide the team with expertise needed to improve a patient’s d...

The use of 3D Virtual Worlds in the domain of cultural heritage represents a unique opportunity to accurately recreate historically significant sites as well as to provide a collaborative working environment for historians, archaeologists, designers and programmers. While most existing solutions are purely focused on reconstructing the architectural elements we also find it very important to pr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper proposes an assessment approach for readiness in BPR efforts based on the critical success and failure factors. Design/methodology/approach – A relevant literature review, which investigates success and failure indic...

In recent years there has been a public interest in collaborative spaces (in other words, “Ba”) under the term “Knowledge Management” or “Knowledge Management System”. Collaborative spaces encourage organizational members (e.g. employee) to acquire or create important organizational intellects (e.g. knowledge) through group activities (e.g. a free discussion). Good design of the collaborative s...

Collaborative applications offers significant benefits in business sector. Usually, team members need to use several systems to carry out their tasks. What these users need is an environment which permits them to carry out these tasks automatically, considering the flow of information between the different systems and offering interoperability and composition features. Nowadays, Web Services ha...

In networked collaborative working environment, users are involved with either repeatable or exclusive task. These variety tasks required the collaborative system to support it dynamic and creative solutions especially in sharing the communication media. Most of the related research is objectively focusing on the alignment of user behavior in shared activities. There is not much research conduc...

This study examined a collaborative tool intervention within a geographically-distributed, engineering-design team in a large manufacturing company. Baseline data collection to determine user requirements was followed by deployment of collaborative tools and subsequent data collection to assess the impact of the collaborative tools on team processes. A small proportion (1/3) of the team adopted...

Reliability and trust are fundamental prerequisites for the establishment of functional relationships among peers in a Collaborative Networked Organisation (CNO), especially in the context of Virtual Enterprises where economic benefits can be directly at stake. This paper presents a novel approach towards effective service discovery and selection that is no longer based on informal, ambiguous a...