Problem characteristics for task sharing in collaborative systems

Problem modeling, decomposition, and distribution techniques are used to implicate both the types of problems best suited to collaboration and requisite problem-solving system capabilities. It is suggested that collaboration is most effective in discrete problem-processing domains where the problem is decomposable into dynamic, parallel subproblems that require multiple domains of expertise. A specialist problem-solving system architecture that uses collaborative techniques is not only conceptually well-founded, but also easily extended to new problem-solving situations