A new class of systems that should appear in a next future should enable several users to lead synchronous cooperative activity by way of their computing systems. These cooperative systems should be able to operate in heterogeneous environments involved by the operating and communication environment of the user. In order to build such cooperative system it is needed to have open cooperative sys...

Central to sustainable natural resource management is the achievement of cooperation and collective action amongst stakeholders with initially conflicting short and long-term goals. It is argued that automatically generated agent-based computer models may be used to explore the ways in which external intervention can bring about effective stakeholder cooperation in environmental resource manage...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based overlays often ignore the boundaries of network domains and make traffic management challenging for network operators. Locality-aware techniques are a promising approach to alleviate this impact, but often benefit only network operators and fail to provide similar benefits to end-users and overlay providers. This is especially severe with video streaming overlays that a...

The centralized management of large distributed systems is often impractical, particularly when the both the topology and status of the system change dynamically. This paper proposes an approach to application-centric selfmanagement in large distributed systems consisting of a collection of autonomic components that join and leave the system dynamically. Cooperative autonomic components self-or...

Cooperative Learning methods were used in a university-level manufacturing management program for students with a technical college preparation. Not only were the exam results improved, diagnostic tests indicated that the students had developed more effective learning and problem solving strategies when compared with similar students who had not learned in an interactive classroom.

There is a need for information exchange and communication between management applications that are distributed over a large system. In this situation, a fundamental problem is how the management systems should cooperate in order to achieve overall management of a system. In order to address this problem, this article presents a functional model of cooperative system management.  1998 John Wil...

The responsibility for managing and conserving freshwater ecosystems is typically shared by multiple organizations with sometimes conflicting policy mandates. However, scorecard-based approaches for measuring management effectiveness in natural resource management are usually confined to single organizations. This paper describes a social learning approach which acknowledges cooperation as an e...

Distributed artiicial intelligence (DAI) is concerned with solving problems by applying both artiicial intelligence techniques and multiple problem solvers. One of the critical research issue of cooperative problem solving by groups is the avoidance, detection and resolution of connicts among the participants. The connict management plays the key role in cooperative problem solving e.g. in conc...