The importance of collaboration in a supply chain has led several scholars to suggest diverse approaches. Questions still remain concerning the best way of dealing with collaboration and conflicts under demand and supply uncertainties. This research proposes a model based on case-based reasoning and multi-agents for supply chain collaboration and information sharing (MACBR-SCM). The MACBR-SCM i...

At the tip of the iceberg of the global financial crisis organizations are looking for economies of scale to survive in these challenging times. The Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) platform is the perfect answer to support an organization’s new strategies, aiming to increase employee productivity while decreasing costs. Our study combines recent collaboration research theories w...

Ad hoc communication applications like computerfacilitated collaboration have become possible with the rapid advancements in portable computing and ad hoc wireless networking. Ad hoc communication solutions require a balance between private communications and access to corporate networked services in order to succeed. In this paper, we discuss and offer some approaches in integrating ad hoc com...

with the advent of digitalization, information and communications technology facilities have become an indispensable part of education especially at the universities. this study has been undertaken with dual purposes - to find the existing scenario of information and communications technology facilities and to gauge the perception of the students onthe quality of those facilities - at the unive...

This paper explores the role of communication and collaboration within the GRID. We discuss how a new generation of communications applications are becoming more resource hungry. We propose a platform for communication and collaboration applications that could itself be built on the GRID fabric. We discuss briefly the attributes of such a platform.

to investigate the effect of massed and distributed collaborative and non-collaborative presentation on l2 learners’ comprehension and production of lexical collocations, 105 participants at takestan islamic azad university in 4 groups were assigned to four different treatment conditions (collaborative-massed; collaborative-distributed; noncollaborative-massed; and noncollaborative-distributed ...