This paper introduces an approach based on the 3C (communication, coordination and
cooperation) collaboration model to the development of collaborative systems. The 3C …

Groupware is evolutionary and difficult to develop and maintain. Thus, its code becomes
unstructured and difficult to evolve. In this paper, a groupware development approach based …

Groupware for cooperative work (CSCW) and for collaborative learning (CSCL) have many
important commonalities as well as different requirements. By transforming a generic CSCW …

Groupware systems allow users to be part of a shared environment in order to carry out
groupwork. Members of a group belong to organizations in which each one fulfils general …

Tailoring groupware has to deal with adapting properties of a shared information space as
well as with adapting properties of the cooperation support to the group's needs. In this …

The design of the groupware systems is a progressively extended task, which is difficult to
tackle. There are not proposals to support the joint modeling of collaborative and interactive …

This paper discusses a conceptual model of groupware consisting of three complementary
components or models: a description of the objects and operations on these objects …

Contemporary literature is overflowing with technical terms defining various aspects of
computer-supported cooperative work. In the following chapter, we will introduce these …

In this paper we present the Clover architectural model, a new conceptual architectural
model for groupware. Our model results from the combination of the layer approach of …

This paper investigates some of the issues which will determine the viability of the World
Wide Web as an infrastructure for cooperative work. In fact, taking a weak definition of …