In the development of groupware systems a well designed communications infrastructure is required, due to the high complexity of the communication scenario. Also, the design and implementation of coordination and collaboration mechanisms depends on the communications infrastructure. Actually there are no well known guidelines to design this infrastructure. Therefore, this paper proposes an arch...

The paper describes the Italian national Electromagnetic Field (EMF) monitoring network, that the Italian Ministry of Communications established with the technical support of Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB) and in collaboration with the local Environmental Protection Agencies of all Italian regions.

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organizations are networks of unites and individuals enhancing organizational performance through cooperation and synergy. it is achieved by developing meaningful and purposeful communications of unites and individuals .thus, it is essential to make organizational communications efficient in order to achieve organizational purposes. in this essay, we examined the variables and factors affecting...

in a complex and volatile environment of the supply chain, any attempt to reduce the risks may increase or decrease other risks; thus, achieving an overall picture of the risks of supply chain and relationships between them are necessary and will lead to more effective and comprehensive strategy to response to risks. the purpose of this paper is identifying and extracting the potential risks of...

background: influenced by several factors, c ollaboration among nurses is a complex and multifaceted process. considering constructive effects of this process, it is important to identify its motivational factors. this study aimed to investigate motivational factors for collaboration among nurses.   methods: the data were collected through unstructured and in-depth interviews with 18 purposivel...

Variable Time-Fraction Collaborative Communications Patrick Tooher, Ph.D. Concordia University 2009 In order to improve the performance of the wireless channel, collaborative communications has recently been proposed. In such a scenario, a source wishing to transmit a signal to a destination can be aided by an otherwise idle transmitter (labeled a relay). Due to the half duplex constraint, the ...

With the recent advances in communications technologies and decentralization of work practices, there has been an increase in distributed, remote, computerized work environments. In most systems, individuals work from their personal computer terminals, unaware of their peers. With the change from a physical to a virtual environment, opportunities for collaboration often go unnoticed. In this pa...

Existing online collaboration tools and platforms provide basic communications integration and the ability to include some real-time information sources. Moreover, users prefer to be able to choose which collaboration tool they use for a given interaction, and over the course of long-term collaboration, will typically use a variety of tools, including email, instant messages, wikis, blogs, web ...