We present an empirical study of teams that revealed the amount of extraneous individual work needed to enable collaboration: finding references to other people, finding files to ...
John C. Tang, James Lin, Jeffrey Pierce, Steve Whi...
This paper reports on a study of clinicians who care for diabetic patients, and on the design of an application to support their work. The clinicians' long-term activity is r...
Abstract. Structural computing is a new paradigm for developing applications in new domains. One of its benefits is that adaptation of behavior--as a consequence of changes of the ...
: Despite the reliance of cooperative applications on the facilities provided by distributed systems, little consideration is given by these systems to the support of cooperative w...
The problem addressed in this paper deals with data sharing as a means to cooperate. Our main focus is on transactional mechanisms to manage concurrent accesses to (partially) sha...