A collaborative virtual geographic environment (CVGE) is a 3-D, distributed, and graphical world representing and simulating geographic phenomena and processes to enable geographically distributed users to explore geoproblems and theories and generate hypotheses, and to support geomodel building and validation and collaborative ecological planning. This chapter reports an approach to establishi...

To solve the procurement conflict between supplier and manufacturer, this paper proposes a collaborative planning model and an adaptive negotiation method by integrating intelligent multi-agent technology. First, a collaborative procurement, inventory and production planning model is built using the multi-level multi-item capacitated lot sizing problem method. Then the particle swarm optimizati...

Multiagent environments are often highly dynamic and only partially observable which makes deliberative action planning computationally hard. In many such environments, however, agents can take a more proactive approach and suspend planning for partial plan execution, especially for active information gathering and interaction with others. This paper presents a new algorithm for Continual Colla...

/ Watershed-based planning has been held as a vanguard for integrated ecosystem management based on a collaborative process. Watershed managers, however, must contend with conflicts that run much deeper than interests for economic development versus sustaining ecosystem health. With data from a survey of members of watershed organizations, we characterize the valued-based conflicts that watersh...

Virtual teams have been adopted by organizations to gain competitive advantages in this global economy. Virtual teams are a ubiquitous part of getting work done in almost every organization. For the purpose of building virtual teams in collaborative process planning, the method based on improved ant colony algorithm (IMACO) was proposed. The concept of virtual team was illustrated and the neces...

In multiagent planning, an agent sometimes needs to collaborate with others to construct complex plans, or to accomplish large organizational tasks which it cannot do alone. Since each agent in a group may have incorrect beliefs about the world and incomplete knowledge, and because agent's abilities differ, constructing a coordinated collaborative plan among agents is a difficult proposition. I...

In horizontal collaborations, carriers form coalitions in order to perform parts of their logistics operations jointly. By exchanging transportation requests among each other, they can operate more efficiently and in a more sustainable way. Collaborative vehicle routing has been extensively discussed in the literature. We identify three major streams of research: (i) centralized collaborative p...

introduction: collaborative testing is a learning strategy that provides students with the opportunity to learn and practice collaboration. this study aimed to determine the effect of collaborative testing on test performance and retention of course content in nursing students of shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was carried out on 84 st...

Based on Geography Information System and Virtual Reality technology, a new system of collaborative urban planning and design is established by publishing the future urban developing and planning information in the urban government Website. With the help of the plug-ins supplied by the system, the citizens concerning with public affairs can interact easily with the server in 3D virtual environm...