Integrating groupware in work practices poses a range of interrelated problems comprising organisational and technological issues. These are complex issues, since they derive from the combined influence of a range of heterogeneous elements and emergent phenomena in the intersection of groupware and work practice. To understand these issues a framework of characteristics is identified and termed...

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading ecscw proceedings of the seventh european conference on computer supported cooperative work 16 20 september 2001 bonn germany is...

* Published in V. Marik, L. M. Camarinha-Matos, and H. Afsarmanesh (eds.): Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services, BASYS’02, Kluwer, 2002, pp. 49-60. Many manufacturing enterprises are introducing various forms of flexible work organizations on the shop floor. However, existing computer-based production planning and control systems pose serious obstacles for self-govern...

Substantial interest has developed in recent years in building computer systems that support cooperative work among groups without the need for physical proximity. This paper examines some of the difficult data management issues in designing systems for computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Specifically, we consider an example CSCW system to support large-scale team science over the Inter...

This two-edition series on computer supported cooperative work and groupware contains sixteen original articles, selected from over forty submissions. As the papers were chosen on individual technical merit, the collection does not introduce all aspects of CSCW and groupware. Still, the new reader should gain some insight of what this field is about, while the active CSCW researcher and groupwa...

A significant amount of research in the field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work has been done to understand the mutual shaping of collaboration technologies and work practices. The outcome of such research helped improving the design of information systems as well as improving the related design processes with regard to a better technology-practice fit. Nevertheless, the approaches to supp...

The trend of e-learning technologies is expanding fast. Web-based learning environments are becoming very common in the higher education institutions. Nowadays e-learning management systems are very popular. Many universities throughout the world deliver educational programs via the Internet. Developments of e-learning systems are generating great impact in the field of education services to im...

The workforce is aging as older workers reenter the workforce or delay retirement. One consequence is that work groups are increasingly becoming intergenerational. Because group work relies on many collaborative tools (e.g., email, shared calendars), it is essential to understand the special requirements that intergenerational groups may have for groupware. Can we design collaborative tools tha...

Our aim in this paper is to outline a fruitful collaboration between the discipline of CSCW and the technologies of Web 2.0 within the scope of the enterprise. The collaboration is two-way: the technologies of Web 2.0 can be used to build systems that enhance collaborative work in the enterprise and the methodology of CSCW can be used to understand how people use Web 2.0 technologies and how th...

This is part of a program devoted to the study of wavelets by making use of their Fourier transforms. We shall rst give a constructive characterization of all minimally-supported-frequencies(m.s.f.) wavelets. Then we use this to construct new m.s.f. wavelets, including ones that are not band-limited. We shall also provide a simple necessary and suucient condition for an m.s.f. wavelet to be ass...