A notation for malleable and interoperable coordination mechanisms for CSCW systems

Authors:
Carla Simone;Monica Divitini;Kjeld Schmidt
Affiliations:
Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41, I-20135 Milano, Italy;Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41, I-20135 Milano, Italy;Cognitive Systems Group, Risø National Laboratory, P. O. Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Venue:
COCS '95 Proceedings of conference on Organizational computing systems
Year:
1995

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Abstract

In order to handle the high degree complexity that characterizes cooperative work in modern work settings, the articulation of the distributed activities requires a category of symbolic artifacts that stipulate and mediate articulation work. We call these artifacts 'coordination mechanisms'. From the evidence of sociological field studies, it is evident that computational coordination mechanisms must be malleable and interoperable. The paper describes a notation for constructing computational coordination mechanisms that meet these requirements.