Large engineering projects, such as the engineering development of computers, involve a
large number of activities and require cooperation across a number of departments. Due to …

What is technological support for work group collaboration? It is a label for an emerging
trend in product development as well as a body of research on the relationship between …

Problems and concepts for understanding how expert systems can be thought about,
designed, and used in organized activity are discussed. Considerations and concepts from …

The invention provides a new and improved system, used in conjunction with a computer, for
coordinating activities by a plurality of actors within a common oper ation having multiple …

In this research, collaboration-based information exchange among autonomous agents in a
distributed environment is investigated. This research explains a conceptual model of …

Using the language-action perspective proposed by T. Winograd and F. Flores (1986), the
author creates a general framework for both systems analysis and its practice. Structured …

This chapter provides guidance to management in the evaluation and selection of group
work support systems. Improvements in computer and communications technologies have …

Front-end planning with early test plan scenarios : a strategy to improve systems
development in the culturally diverse, technol Page 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst …