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Cooperative Knowledge Processing

The Key Technology for Intelligent Organizations

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Kirn

    1. Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

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  2. Gregory O’Hare

    1. Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Cooperative Knowledge Processing - Research Framework and Application Perspectives

    • Stefan Kirn
    Pages 1-25

  3. Coordination in Organizations

    • Rolf Müller
    Pages 26-42

  4. Communication-Orientated Approaches to Support Multi-User Processes in Office Work

    • Michael Syring, Ulrich Hasenkamp
    Pages 43-63

  5. Coordinating Human and Software Agents through Electronic Mail

    • Ian Finch, Frans Coenen, Trevor Bench-Capon, Michael Shave
    Pages 64-78

  6. User Control over Coordination Mechanisms in Office Information Systems

    • Nikolay Mehandjiev, Leonardo Bottaci, Roger Phillips
    Pages 79-96

  7. Computational Support for the Management of Social Processes within Organizational Teams

    • Gregory O’Hare, Linda Macauley, Paul Dongha, Steve Viller
    Pages 97-116

  8. The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: How Locks Can Gently Control Collaboration

    • Rainer Unland
    Pages 117-138

  9. Enhancing Organizational Intelligence through Cooperative Problem Solving

    • Stefan Kirn
    Pages 139-154

  10. Organizational Intelligence and Negotiation Based DAI Systems — Theoretical Foundations and Experimental Results

    • Rainer Unland, Stefan Kirn
    Pages 155-172

  11. Incorporating Organizational Design Principles and Experiences into the Design and Implementation of Multi Agent Systems

    • Shaheena Abbas, Gregory O’Hare
    Pages 173-195

  12. Coordination Protocols

    • Kurt Sundermeyer
    Pages 196-211

  13. Modeling Distributed Industrial Processes in a Multi-Agent Framework

    • Frances M. T. Brazier, Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Nick R. Jennings, Jan Treur
    Pages 212-229

  14. Utilitarian Coalition Formation Between Autonomous Agents for Cooperative Information Gathering

    • Matthias Klusch
    Pages 230-257

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 258-296
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About this book

In the light of the challenges that face today's organizations, there is a grow­ ing recognition that future market success and long term' survival of enter­ prises will increasingly depend upon the effective usage of information technology. Of late, a new generation of terminology has emerged to describe enterprises. This terminology draws heavily upon the virtual concep- virtual reality, virtual organization, virtual (working) environment, and indeed virtual product. However, developing computerized organisations for the 21st century demands serious thought with regard to the judicious integration of organizational theory, design and practice with research tools and methods from within information processing technology. Within this book, we approach this aim from the perspective of a radically decentralized (possibly virtual) enterprise. We assume that organizations are becoming increasingly process-orientated, rather than adhering to the former more traditional organizational structures based upon task oriented models. This approach has proved illuminating in that, due to the inherent autonomy of organizational subunits any approach to coordinating decentralized activ­ ities (including workflows and business processes) necessitates a cooperative style of problem solving. This book introduces the reader to a stimulating new field of interdiscipli­ nary research in cooperative problem solving. In Chapter 1 Kim presents a view of three central discip14tes, namely those of Organizational Theory, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). The applications given here demonstrate how future enterprises will benefit from recent advances in the technological arena of cooperative knowledge processing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Stefan Kirn

  • Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Gregory O’Hare

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cooperative Knowledge Processing

  • Book Subtitle: The Key Technology for Intelligent Organizations

  • Editors: Stefan Kirn, Gregory O’Hare

  • Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3042-0

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19951-9Published: 26 November 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3042-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1496

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 296

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Communication Networks

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