Title :
Formalization of computer supported cooperative work applications
Author :
Chang, Carl K. ; Zhang, Jia ; Jiang, Tsang Ming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
From its first appearance in 1984, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has attracted a lot of research attention in distributed systems. Over the past decade, the CSCW community has developed a number of experimental systems and commercial products to support collaboration. However, much of the reported work is highly application-specific. There generally lacks a sound infrastructure to support the development of a wide variety of CSCW applications. It is essential to formalize the collaboration concepts, model the cooperative and communicative activities, erect CSCW-oriented architectures, and construct a flexible and extendable development environment for building CSCW applications
Keywords :
groupware; CSCW-oriented architectures; collaboration concepts; communicative activities; computer supported cooperative work applications; cooperative activities; development environment; distributed systems; infrastructure; Access control; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer applications; Computer science; Distributed computing; Human computer interaction; Permission;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 2001. FTDCS 2001. Proceedings. The Eighth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Bologna
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1384-0
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.2001.969640
