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
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
Experiences in building a configurable CSCW system
Studies in computer supported cooperative work
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UIST '91 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The action workflow approach to workflow management technology
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Experiments with Oval: a radically tailorable tool for cooperative work
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Flexible, active support for collaborative work with ConversationBuilder
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Office procedure as practical action: models of work and system design
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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CSCW '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work
CovaModeler: A multi-user tool for modelling cooperative processes
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Workflow management systems for process organisations
Workflow management systems for process organisations
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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 work. This paper examines the provision of appropriate mechanisms to represent cooperative work within a distributed platform. Based upon a examination of existing models of cooperative activity and the experiences of their use, a lightweight model of activities is suggested as the basis for the supporting platform. Rather than concentrate on the exchange of information, this lightweight model focus on the mechanisms of sharing of objects. This focus enables a clear separation between the mechanisms provided by the distributed platform and the policy which is the responsibility of the cooperative applications.