INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT STUDY MODULE IMPLEMENTED IN VIRTUAL TEAMS COOPERATION WITH WORKING LIFE

This paper deals with two aspects of virtual world creation – consistency of data and isolation of independent concepts. These concepts include among others 3D graphics rendering, physical simulation, audio processing, or user interaction. Current systems for virtual world creation focus more on concrete concepts and less on their independence thus limiting extensibility. They usually define st...

Recent technological developments have opened new perspectives for the cooperation between human learners, virtual humans and anthropomorphic robots, especially in an augmented virtual reality continuum. This kind of learning environments can be defined as DigiMech Learning Environments (DMLE). The richness and variety of users’ possible interactions in such environments go far beyond the simpl...

A low cost Mixed Reality implementation with force feedback as a base for further empirical studies of collaboration in distributed real and virtual environments will be presented. It will be shown, how the system can be used to get more insight in tangible cooperation between humans, avatars or in general real and virtual systems. This application is related to Hyper-Bonds, a unified concept t...

The reorganization of the supply chain in the aerospace industry has led to a new situation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The suppliers are forced to deliver completed systems instead of components and assemblies. In order to react to the changed requirements, one possible solution is the project-oriented and temporary cooperation of SME by building a Virtual Organization in ord...

The main intrest of this study was to investigate the phenomenon of collective intelligence in an anonymous virtual environment developed for this purpose. In particular, we were interested in studing how dividing a fixed community in different group size, which, in different phases of the experiment, works to solve tasks of different complexity, influences the social problem solving process. T...

This paper presents findings collected from a collaborative implementation project established in Spring 2008 between Aalborg University’s IT-department in the Faculty of Social Science (FSS) and the E-Learning Cooperation Unit (ELSA) with the view to implement Moodle in FSS. The purpose of this cooperation was conceived from an organisational desire to establish a virtual learning environment ...

To work together, members of a virtual organisation must be able to establish cooperation, exchange information with each other, and co-ordinate shared activities across open interfaces with strong support from information and communications technologies. This paper promotes the concept of a process ontology as a groundwork for communication, co-operation, and co-ordination for virtual enterpri...

Among the multiple definitions for the Virtual Enterprise concept, the significance of two key elements: networking and cooperation, becomes clear. The lack of a unified definition is partially resulted by the large diversity in classes of networked organizations, which calls for the establishment of a taxonomy of virtual enterprises. An attempt to present some current definitions and a taxonom...

The maintenance of military aircraft is complex and exhaustive, requiring an accurate training program. This process is not fault tolerant and requires certification renewal periodically. Furthermore, the process involves many professionals and resources, requiring phases of maintenance and verification of the tasks. Cooperation between professionals in the overall process is essential and requ...