Cooperative business processes supporting the collaboration of companies and organizations are of increasing importance as they help to reduce the complexity of cooperation scenarios and optimize time and costs. More and more organizations use Internet technology such as Web services to support their cooperative business processes. Web services are an emerging technology to encapsulate services...

The emergence and widespread adoption of the World Wide Web offers a great deal of potential in supporting cross-platform cooperative work within widely-dispersed working groups. The Basic Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW) project at GMD is attempting to realise this potential through development of Web-based tools which provide cross-platform collaboration services to groups using existing W...

While bandwidth for previous IP backbone networks deployed by Internet Service Providers typically has been limited to 34 Mbps, current and future IP networks provide bandwidth ranging from 155 Mbps to 2.4 Gbps. Thus, it is important to investigate the impact of emerging network technologies on the performance of cooperative Web caching protocols. In this paper, we present a comprehensive perfo...

The World Wide Web is becoming a dominating factor in Information Technology. Consequently, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work on the Web has recently drawn a lot of attention. “Process Support for Cooperative Work” (PSCW) is a Web-based system supporting both structured and unstructured forms of cooperation. It is a combination of the “Basic Support for Cooperative Work” (BSCW) shared workspa...

Cooperative learning has been defined as “learners working together as a team to solve a problem to complete a task or to accomplish a common goal”, which emphasizes the importance of interactions among members to promote the whole learning performance. With the popularity of society networks, cooperative learning is no longer limited to traditional classroom teaching activities. Since society ...

In Web-based CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) often including cooperative learning, different from face-to-face communication, partners' situations including their interest, concentration, boredom, and tiredness cannot be easily transmitted. To overcome these problems, “Augmented Cyberspace” for dependable Web-based CSCW Systems, is proposed, which is also applicable to system such as...

BACKGROUND The limited availability of pediatric rheumatologists for teaching in pediatric residency programs negatively impacts resident education about rheumatology. At present, there are no educational websites available for trainees to learn about pediatric rheumatology. We are planning to develop an interactive web-based teaching module to improve resident learning about rheumatology ("POI...

In addition to establishing and maintaining knowledge spaces, cooperative knowledge organization specifically involves the structuring and adaptation of such spaces, taking into account existing materials and media. The open-source project sTeam, which is being coordinated and largely developed in Paderborn, allows the web-based establishment of an extensive document base as well as its coopera...