Joint studies that involve biologists and physicists are becoming more frequent and have contributed to the identification and understanding of physical parameters underlying key biological processes. Here, we illustrate the main findings resulting from a 10-year collaboration between a cell biologist and an experimental physicist, both interested in the mechanisms of intracellular transport an...

In October 1997, the Italian and Dutch GRB teams started a collaboration on ESO optical follow-up of rapidly and accurately localized GRBs. Subsequently, starting April 1, 2000, this collaboration was extended to astronomers from other countries, who contributed their expertise for the creation of a Consortium committed to the study of GRB counterparts and host galaxies at optical and near-infr...

A Social Network Group (SNG) in the context of this paper is a group of people who come together to form a small scale business. The relationship between them is business. This paper provides a formal framework for SNGs and also models a rudimentary framework for collaborations among SNGs. The chief functionality of SNGs is to execute tasks, which forms the basic reason for collaborations. So, ...

The goal of the Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education is to develop comprehensive curricular guidance in cybersecurity that will support future program development and associated educational efforts. This effort is a collaboration among the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, the AIS Special Interest Group on Security and Privacy (SIGSEC), the IFIP WG 11.8, and the Cyber Education Project. In...

This report describes major results obtained from the joint research framework supported by the R&D promotion fund from NICT. The ultimate goal of this research is to extract technical issues to be addressed for realizing ontology-based language infrastructures which should be truly required in broad range of intercultural collaboration activities. The participated researchers in the joint fram...

Today, Web search is treated as a solitary experience. Web browsers and search engines are typically designed to support a single user, working alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is actually commonplace. Students work together to complete homework assignments, friends seek information about joint entertainment opportunities, family members jointly plan vacation travel, a...

Machine learning techniques are usually used in coordination problems and in competitive games but not in collaborative ones. Collaboration and coordination are different, while in coordination the task can not be concluded by a unique agent, in collaboration it can be solved by one agent or by a team, but the use of several agents has to be re ected in the performance of the system. In this wo...

The European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) was established to increase cooperation in European health technology assessment (HTA) by developing a common set of tools, methods, documents, and HTA information. The collaboration is well recognized within the European HTA community and at an international level. Timely and efficient usage of European HTA resources is possible ...

This paper proposes the concept of Inter-Enterprise Architecture (IEA), which seeks the application of tools and methodologies developed in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) field for the individual firm, adapting to an environment of collaboration between several companies that make networks or supply chains, in order to facilitate the integration and interoperability of their collaborative pro...

Builders of groupware writing technologies need a better understanding of collaborative writing if their systems are to adequately address user needs. This paper presents a taxonomy of joint writing based on an analysis of interviews with authors who have written documents together. The taxonomy describes joint writing in terms of four components: roles played in the collaboration, activities p...