Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings
Communications of the ACM
The rapport multimedia conferencing system
COCS '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA 1988 conference on Office information systems
LIZA: an extensible groupware toolkit
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Strudel—an extensible electronic conversation toolkit
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Rendezvous: an architecture for synchronous multi-user applications
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
DistEdit: a distributed toolkit for supporting multiple group editors
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
Y distributed application platform
Computer Communications
Experiments with Oval: a radically tailorable tool for cooperative work
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
A standard for OSI group communication
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
An Environment for Open Distributed Group Cooperation
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.4 International Workshop on Open Distributed Processing
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Applications designed to support the work of groups will becoming increasingly important to future distributed systems. This paper considers the role of distributed systems within the development of cooperative systems. In particular we focus on the need to provide open Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems and their impact on distributed systems. The work currently being undertaken in Open Distributed Processing (ODP) is used to highlight significant trends for future open CSCW systems. It is shown that the CSCW and ODP community share mutual interests and have complementary aims and goals that are being developed from different perspectives. Within the paper we provide a brief introduction to CSCW, highlighting the requirements CSCW places on distributed systems. The development of an environment to support open CSCW systems is introduced and briefly described. Finally, the relationships between requirements and models for Open CSCW systems and the Basic Reference Model of ODP are discussed.