Today, achieving collaborative tactical planning on the battlefield presents a significant challenge in the new DoD Net-Centric systems-of-systems (SoS) and the futuristic integrated and adaptive C4ISR systems-of-systems. The primary reason is that in a Net-Centric environment both manned and unmanned heterogeneous platforms and robotic systems must work side-byside with the warfighters, but th...

The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges due to the lack of effective information, systems and the absence of a framework to make informed decisions. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the healthy cities movement, consequently, there have been more frequent calls for localised, collaborative and evidence-driven decision-making. Some studies in the...

In this paper we describe the results of a study which compares explicit synchronous collaborative web search with searching the web individually when users are utilizing the web for the purpose of social planning tasks, in specific travel planning. We explore both co-located and distributed collaborative search within groups of two and three participants. The distributed collaborative search i...

Many Information Technology (IT) tools now exist to support collaborative working between engineering organisations. These often address operational issues rather than tactical or strategic issues. In particular, there are no effective tools for collaborative project planning between project partners. An electronic engineering hub (e-Hub) is considered useful in this regard. This paper presents...

The tremendous power and low price of today's computer systems have created the opportunity for exciting applications rich with graphics, audio and video. Despite this potential, planning computer systems to support the intensity of these multimedia applications is an extremely di cult task. We have developed a exible model and method that allows us to predict multimedia application performance...

1. introduction language teachers frequently observe a gap between their students' potential competence and their performance in the class. anderson (1993) attributes this to the fact that human has a limited processing capacity and is not able to attend to various aspects of a task simultaneously. this limitation causes l2 learners not to be able to focus on both meaning and form at the same t...

Problem: As planners grow increasingly confident that they have settled on the right concepts and methods to conduct stakeholder-based collaboration, they are not considering what can be achieved through other collaborative approaches. Purpose: We aimed to explore how creating a network of placeand stakeholder-based collaboratives using communities of practice could strengthen individual collab...