Review and functional classification of collaborative systems

  • Authors:
  • Georgia Bafoutsou;Gregoris Mentzas

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Politexniou Street, 42, 28th October, Str. 15780 Zografou, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Politexniou Street, 42, 28th October, Str. 15780 Zografou, Greece

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

E-collaboration and collaborative systems bring geographically dispersed teams together, supporting communication, coordination and cooperation. The paper presents a review of research in the area of creating collaborative application taxonomies. We analyze previous literature, and examine commercial products and research prototypes in the domain of collaborative computing. Our survey provides a list of basic collaboration services, and the tools are presented with regards to the services they provide. All surveyed tools are then classified to four categories of functional services. In conclusion, the paper highlights a number of areas for consideration and improvement that arise when studying collaborative applications.