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To develop a foundational understanding ofcollaboration, it is useful to think of it in terms ofgoals.Collaboration means joint effort toward agroup goal.Group goals, however, are differentthan the internal goals of group members. Forexample, an ...

The Advances in Teaching and LearningTechnologies Minitrack is presently in its fifth year andserves as an outlet for research dealing withtechnologies that can be used to augment the teachingprocess, the learning process, or both.This ratherbroad ...

This paper builds on action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing (KS) and trust as important factors for building a sustainable online ...

Online group work has been identified as an important issue in Web-based education for a long time. With the prevalence of instant messaging in adolescents, more and more students opt to choose this emerging synchronous communication medium for online ...

Many peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been widely used for file sharing. A peer acts both as a content provider and a consumer, and is granted autonomy to decide what content, with whom, and when to share. Is a p2p network an ideal vehicle for ...

Cases are widely used in professional education to engage learners with examples of real world practices. Collaboration in case- based learning can add to the authenticity of the experience by encouraging learners to synthesize multiple perspectives. In ...

Current e-learning environments do not providesufficient support for group collaboration. The absence ofthe visual identification of the users makes effectivecollaboration in e-learning very difficult. This paperargues that virtual worlds (VW) possess ...

Interorganizational Systems (IOS) adoption requires cooperation and collaboration between trading partners and, therefore, is reliant on the nature of their relationships. There has been some research that investigates relationships and how ...

In today's highly connected global economy, IS/ITis frequently deployed across multiple organizationslocated in various countries. Consequently, cross- system integration and collaboration technologies playessential roles and often determine whether or ...

Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) teams with geographically and temporally dispersed members who heavily rely on computer-mediated communications (CMC) face significant collaboration challenges associated with cultural diversity. From the social identity ...

With growing use of interorganizational systems the scope of interfirm collaboration has increased considerably, particularly in the supply chain context. An important prerequisite of interfirm collaboration is information sharing. Extant research ...

How can relationship quality in outsourcing partnerships be achieved, sustained, and im- proved? In this paper we present a conceptual model that focuses on the identification of the relevant determinants for a successful IT outsourcing rela- tionship ...

Collaboration technologies often provide benefits to teams working together to achieve a common goal. Such technologies may be abandoned, however, if users are dissatisfied with the work practices that they support. Goal attainment has been identified ...

Virtual teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about what constitutes effective virtual team leadership, in particular, what amount of leader delegation is appropriate in a virtual environment? ...

Collaboration has become a fundamentalpart of organizational life, and its importanceincreases still. Recent trends in the use ofsocialware, collaborative learning, and virtualteams show that there vastly increasing numberof research challenges ahead to ...

bers in a group decision situation is used in a prototype of a group decision support tool that explicitly computes and presents the differences between the individual positions held by each group member to help the group describe and define the ...

communications technology-supported international eSourcing of software products and services (IeS) can be effectively executed. The extant literature falls short of providing a systematic and detailed enough set of best practices to guide IeS. This ...

Introducing new collaboration tools in an organization is difficult and will most often cause side- effects and unforeseen concequences. In this paper we use the concept of Common Information Spaces (CIS) to analyze how information is shared within a ...

One important step in workflow automation is to design a valid and efficient workflow model that accurately specifies the execution sequence of activities in a business process. The dataflow constraints, which define the data input and output of each ...

Traditional GSS workflow leverages the abilities of an expert facilitator to lead groups through the convergence activities. This dependence on a facilitator creates a bottleneck that is difficult to resolve in asynchronous and distributed groups. This ...

Collaboration support consists of process and (optionally) technology support. For these two types of support we can distinguish a design task (to design the process and the technology), an application task (to apply the process and to use the ...

The organizing pattern of interaction moves from less to more understanding about the relationships that exist between concepts. The current view of organizing activities is primarily a data-centric view. Organizing is not an end in itself but is an ...

This Research in Progress paper analyses users' requirements for the development of a Virtual Community (VC) for the academic SAP UCC (University Competence Center) User Group. The SAP UCC User Group consists of lecturers and students using SAP Software ...

Defining requirements is one of the most critical activities in the development of software intensive systems. The EasyWinWin system has been very good in capturing initial requirements involving heterogeneous stakeholders in over 150 client-developer ...

In its third year, this minitrack deals withany aspect of the analysis, design, development,deployment, operation, or evaluation ofemergency response systems (ERS). Inparticular, the minitrack seeks to encourageresearch on three areas that are pertinent ...

Notification is one of the major tasks for emergency responses. Quick and appropriate notification can save lives and significantly reduce damages. It is, however, challenging to make a right decision on notification. In this paper, we propose a ...