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Structural Computing in the Collaborative Work Domain?

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Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing (SC 2000, OHS 2000)

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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 structures used to model the application—becomes easier. In this paper, the collaborative work domain—in particular the task of coordination—is examined as a potential application area for structural computing. Coordination behavior shows high variability, depending on the ever-changing requirements of cooperative work processes. This makes frequent adaptation of the coordination behavior necessary. To support this adaptation, a structural computing approach is described in this paper, which (1) explicitly models processes, teams, and content as part of a shared workspace, and (2) dynamically defines coordination support as behavior (i.e. computations over the above structure). Finally, some requirements on structural computing, which result from this work, are presented.

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Haake, J.M. (2000). Structural Computing in the Collaborative Work Domain?. In: Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing. SC OHS 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39941-0_14

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