Collaboration has become an important goal in modern ventures, across the spectrum of commercial, social, and intellectual activities, sometimes as a mediating factor, and sometimes as a driving, foundational principle. Research, development, social programs, and ongoing ventures of all sorts benefit from interactions between teams, groups, and organizations, across intellectual disciplines and...

In the context of a web-based collaborative working environment, any interactive activity among the actors themselves or between the actor and the system in the collaborative workspace produces a set of Collaborative Traces (CT). A collaborative trace reflects the group’s working experience from past actions. Indeed, systematical experience reuse in organizations can sustain the complex project...

This document reports the final, detailed result of the study on current and future technologies for collaborative working environments (CWEs). The goal of this study is to analyze current CWEs and whether they and their future trends are suitable for largescale multinational organizations. To this end, we have analyzed the structure of large-scale organizations in general, and of ESA in partic...

Collaborative storytelling activities in social media environments are generally developed in a linear way in which all participants collaborate on a shared story as it is passed from one to another in a relay form. Difficulties with this linear approach arise when collecting the contributions of participants in to a coherent story. This study proposes a hypermedia approach to enable students t...

The advent of computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) systems significantly impacts group collaboration. This paper reviews three CSCW systems: Lotus Notes, Xerox DocuShare, and SevenMountains Integrate. We focus on their different capabilities and uses in distributed group projects.

SIADEX is a complex framework that integrates several AI techniques able to design fighting plans against forest fires. It is based on four main components, a web server, that centralizes all the flow of information between the system and the user, the ontology server, that is the cornerstone of the architecture as the basis for knowledge sharing and exchange between all the components, and the...

This paper presents an introduction ~ to a model of a collaborative working environment which supports distributed team argumentation, negotiation, consensus building and rationalecapture. Based on a natural model of team deliberation, this model is the basis for the development of a system which enables team support and the capture of the design rationale in value added activities. The consens...

At the Institute of Air Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), methods for collaborative design are systematically developed and assessed. These collaborative design approaches are used to gain knowledge on the overall air transportation system. A collaborative working environment–the Integrated Design Laboratory (IDL) is established. It forms an experimental technical pla...

This paper outlines an awareness application called Tickertape. Tickertape is a tool that displays event notifications in the form of scrolling messages across a single-line window. The Tickertape message window provides an interface to a world of highly tailorable transient information. We provide an overview of Tickertape features and then discuss its specific use within a semi-commercial res...

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between Virtual Organization Inheritance and Organizational Memory. It also frames the concept of process management as being an element of Organizational Memory under the scope of Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs). The authors argue that the transformations occurring in processes executed by Virtual Organizations are elements of Or...