Coordination theory and collaboration technology / edited by Gary M. Olson, Thomas W. Malone, John B. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Gary M.

Malone, Thomas W.

Smith, John B. (John Bristow), 1940-

Series:

Computers, cognition, and work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group work in research--United States.

Group work in research.

Research--United States--Methodology.

Research.

Information technology--United States.

Information technology.

Methodology.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 805 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Summary:

This book is in memory of Laurence Rosenberg of the National Science Foundation for his work in Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This book explores the global revolution in human interconnectedness. It will discuss various collaborative

Contents:

Part I Theoretical Approaches to Coordination and Collaboration 5

1. The Interdisciplinary Study of Coordination / Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston 7

2. Communication and Collaboration in Distributed Cognition / Richard J. Boland, Jr., Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi 51

3. Coordination as Distributed Search / Edmund H. Durfee, Daniel Damouth, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Marcus J. Huber, Thomas A. Montgomery, Sandip Sen 67

4. Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments / Sarit Kraus, Jonathan Wilkenfeld 93

5. Two Design Principles for Collaboration Technology: Examples of Semiformal Systems and Radical Tailorability / Thomas W. Malone, Kum-Yew Lai, Kenneth R. Grant 125

6. On Economies of Scope in Communication / Thomas Marschak 161

7. Knowledge, Discovery, and Growth / Stanley Reiter 193

Part II Collaboration Technology for Specific Domains 261

8. Infrastructure and Applications for Collaborative Software Engineering / Prasun Dewan, Vahid Mashayekhi, John Riedl 263

9. Cooperative Support for Distributed Supervisory Control / Christopher A. Jasek, Patricia M. Jones 311

10. Trellis: A Formally Defined Hypertextual Basis for Integrating Task and Information / Richard Furuta, P. David Stotts 341

11. Problems of Decentralized Control: Using Randomized Coordination to Deal With Uncertainty and Avoid Conflicts / Joseph Pasquale 369

12. The Architecture and Implementation of a Distributed Hypermedia Storage System / Douglas E. Shackelford, John B. Smith, F. Donelson Smith 391

Part III Studies of Collaboration 409

13. Communication and Coordination in Reactive Robotic Teams / Ronald C. Arkin, Tucker Balch 411

14. Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, and Reseeding: The Incremental Development of Collaborative Design Environments / Gerhard Fischer, Jonathan Grudin, Raymond McCall, Jonathan Ostwald, David Redmiles, Brent Reeves, Frank Shipman 447

15. Distributed Group Support Systems: Theory Development and Experimentation / Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Donna Dufner, Jerry Fjermestad, Youngjin Kim, Rosalie Ocker, Ajaz Rana, Murray Turoff 473

16. Transforming Coordination: The Promise and Problems of Information Technology in Coordination / Rob Kling, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jonathan P. Allen, Yannis Bakos, Vijay Gurbaxani, Margaret Elliott 507

17. Computer Support for Distributed Collaborative Writing: A Coordination Science Perspective / Christine M. Neuwirth, David S. Kaufer, Ravinder Chandhok, James H. Morris 535

18. Technology Support for Collaborative Workgroups / Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson 559

Part IV Organizational Modeling 585

19. Central Coordination of Decentralized Information in Large Chains and Franchises / Toby Berger, Nicholas M. Kiefer 587

20. Organizational Performance, Coordination, and Cognition / Kathleen M. Carley 595

21. Computational Enterprise Models: Toward Analysis Tools for Designing Organizations / Raymond E. Levitt, Yan Jin, Gaye A. Oralkan, John C. Kunz, Tore R. Christiansen 623

22. Extending Coordination Theory to Deal With Goal Conflicts / Clayton Lewis, Rene Reitsma, E. Vance Wilson, Ilze Zigurs 651

23. Modeling Team Coordination and Decisions in a Distributed Dynamic Environment / Wei-Ping Wang, David L. Kleinman, Peter B. Luh 673

Part V Collaboratories 711

24. Social Theoretical Issues in the Design of Collaboratories: Customized Software for Community Support Versus Large-Scale Infrastructure / Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star 713

25. A Path to Concept-Based Information Access: From National Collaboratories to Digital Libraries / Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz 739

26. Technology to Support Distributed Team Science: The First Phase of the Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory (UARC) / Gary M. Olson, Daniel E. Atkins, Robert Clauer, Terry Weymouth, Thomas A. Finholt, Atul Prakash, Craig Rasmussen, Farnam Jahanian 761.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805834036

OCLC:

45845486