Collaborative problem solving (ColPS) proficiency was developed as a new assessment for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in the 2015 international evaluation of student skills and knowledge. The assessment framework defined by the PISA ColPS 2015 expert group crossed three major collaboration processes with four problem solving processes that were adopted from the PISA ...

I will describe the current status of a long-term effort at developing dialogue systems that go beyond simple task execution models to systems that involve collaborative problem solving. Such systems involve open-ended discussion and the tasks cannot be accomplished without extensive interaction (e.g., 10 turns or more). The key idea is that dialogue itself arises from an agent’s ability for co...

In order to answer the question whether the “World Wide Web can serve as an infrastructure for business applications in a globally, distributed and collaborative business environment”, one has to step back and address firstly the questions concerning the prerequisites of collaborative problem solving: what is involved in collaborative problem solving in a business context in general and which t...

We present the groupware MEMO-Net which aim is to support collective problem solving and to memorize all exchanged arguments. This groupware is based on a knowledgestructuring method (DIPA) that provides a work support for the team using the tool and that permits the exchanges’ structure for a better knowledge management.