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OMOL - Related Stuff on the Web
This page contains information I found during the writing of the OMOL Proposal. It is by no means complete, but rather a starting point for exploring further resources on the web, and perhaps for organizing and categorizing different works.
Contents
Lan Design Tools
Conceptual/Theoretical Stuff
Organizational Learning
Basic Techologies (infrastructure?)
Software AgentsDatabase/Repository
Data Mining
Digital Libraries
Behavior ExchangeCollaboration Technologies
Conferencing Sytems - email-oriented applications, aka "threaded discussion" support.Artifact-Centered - communication takes place around an artifact
Environments - integrated systems (as opposed to applications)
Groupware - Commercial Products - usually oriented toward organizational concerns. Some are meeting-oriented, others are email-oriented.
WorkFlow - Similar to Groupware (an organizational perspective), emphasizing project-level support and processes. Grudin - Workflow is oriented toward coordination (and conflict resolution) rather than assuming
Collaborative Environments
defn - Integrated collections of applicationsDomain-Oriented Design Environments
wOrlds: An Open Environment for Support of Collaborative Activities
Stanford Center for Design (CDR)
The Design Space Colonization (DSC) Project -
executive summary:
Political, economic and technological forces are changing the landscape of engineering. There is an increasing need for organizations to form joint design and manufacturing teams that collaborate for the life of a project and then disperse. These teams need to quickly locate, evaluate and make effective use of the best resources (tools, facilities, people) available, wherever they may be found. In this proposal we concentrate on a subset of this problem that is most critical in the early stages of developing a product, when new ideas, processes, components and materials are being explored and prototypes are developed. We propose solutions that will enhance the ability of teams to exploit novel tools and processes for improving product performance and reducing costs, and to document their explorations for others to follow. In this way we believe that the slow cycle of exploration, maturation and widespread adoption that typically accompanies significant advances in materials and processing capabilities can be compressed from decades to years.Other stuff from CDR:
The Redux project
Data Mining
Is this where PHOAKS belongs??)
Digital Libraries
NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative Projects - this page has pointers to individual projects.
Groupware
Action Technologies: Product Overview - winnograd and flore's company
Questmap by Corporate Memory Systems, Inc. (CMSI)
"QuestMap is used by project teams to support on-line planning and decision making. QuestMap provides team members with shared, on-line "whiteboards." All the messages, documents, and reference material having to do with a project can be placed on the whiteboard, and the relationships between them can be graphically displayed. Users end up with a "map" that shows a history of the on-line conversations that led up to key decisions and plans. QuestMap is being used by major corporations for strategic planning, environmental planning, business process reengineering, and new product design."QuestMap is touted as an argumentation tool, and there are several articles contained in the CMSI homepage.
QuestMap is used by Al Selvin at NYNEX in a far broader way than just argumentation (see his paper, Leveraging Existing Hypertext Functionality to Create A Customized Environment for Team Analysis)
Organizational Memory
GIMMe
Design Rational
Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation
Agents
See the UMBC AgentWeb page for lots of links.
Software Agents Group at MIT
This page list several projects investigating agents as a means to deal with information overload. It also contains a definition of software agents.None of the several projects described explicitly tries to use the work context as a means to infer relevant information, although there are some related approaches:
Letizia: An Advisory Agent for Web Browsing from their page:
We are building a new kind of agent that acts as a user's assistant in browsing the World Wide Web. Many current Web tools perform searches for the user, but our approach is to consider search for information as a cooperative venture between the human user and an intelligent software agent. Rather than search a pre-indexed portion of the Web according to user-stated keywords, the agent, Letizia, infers interest implicitly from observing user actions and tries to stay just a few steps ahead of the user, searching the user's immediately accessible links dynamically.This page also contains an enumeration of issues related to software agents.
There is a nice list of Resources on Agents
WorkFlow
Workflow OverviewStef Joosten's Workflow Systems Research page at the University of Twente
Workflow Related Internet Resources
Communication Sytems
Computer Conferencing on the Web (Discussion Forums and Groupware)
HyperMail - threads, views
Artifact-Centered Systems
Interactive Journals
defn - Artifact (document) centered, threaded discussion systems.
Other
CSCW
CSCW: History and Focus - A nice paper by Jonathan Grudin that introduces the field and provides background and definitions of terms.Abstract:
This article describes the participation in CSCW research and groupware development. It ties the emergence of CSCW in the 1980s to the growing interest of product developers in supporting networked groups and the discovery of common interests with those working management information systems, as well as with researchers in the social sciences and other disciplines. Differences in emphasis in Europe and Japan are discussed. The picture that emerges is of CSCW as a forum bringing together researchers and developers who share some but not all interests and must overcome the difficulties of multidisciplinary interaction.Tom's CSCW & Groupware Index - a big list of Links.
Organizational Learning
A nice description of the problems facing organizations and the differences between traditional and emerging views of organziations can be found at the home page for the Program on Social and Organizational Learning (George Mason University), under the heading of "Learning Organizations." This organization offers a MS program in organizational learning.
MIT
MIT Center for Coordination Sciences (CSS) CCS develops theories to understand, and technologies to support, computer-supported cooperative work, and studies how information technology can change the ways people work together in organizations and markets.MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) CISR conducts research on the strategic, managerial, and organizational impacts of information technology, with particular emphasis on the issues faced by IS executives.
MIT Organizational Learning Center (OLC). OLC works to advance the state-of-the-art in building learning organizations through collaborative research and practice.
The OLC site has a page that points to other "HREF="http://learning.mit.edu/com/links.html">internet sites devoted to education in organizational learning concepts." One of these links points to the Stanford Learning Organization Web.
A potentially interesting project: The Improvement Paradox: Designing Sustainable Quality Improvement Programs. The paper presents some preliminary results concerning factors that affect the success of process redesign. I was mostly interested in the concept of sustainability, but there isn't much in the paper about it! This work comes from the System Dynamics Group within the Sloan School at MIT.
Stanford Learning Organization Web
The Stanford Learning Organization Web sites has a nice pointer to Recommended Reading on Senge's Five Disciplines, which contains many references and definitions for ach of Senge's five disciplines. Also a nice list of (very conceptual)related Web Sites. One site, Autopoiesis and Enactive Cognitive Science, seems to be highly related to our notions of onto/phylo genetic evolution.Designing Organizational Memory: Preserving Intellectual Assets in a Knowledge Economy
paper by conklin, has commercial overtones (he is trying to sell his product (questmap). but this paper does have some useful definitions/concepts.
Sustainability
What is Sustainable Development?
LAN Design Tools
LAN Times Home Constraint-based Network Design A Simple Network Management Tool April 1, 1996 - Network diagnostic tool LANMeter proves that solving network problems takes a Fluke Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) Network Planning Tool Tools for LAN Design NetSuite Professional Design-LAN Times 4/1/96 Smart Design Tool-LAN Times 9/25/95
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