10 articles in this issue
Juan P. Wachs
This paper describes the design of intelligent, collaborative operating rooms based on highly intuitive, natural and multimodal interaction. Intelligent operating rooms minimize surgeon’s focus shifts by minimizing both the focus spatial offset (distance ... see more
Constantin-Bala Zamfirescu,Florin Gheorghe Filip
The paper highlights the computational power of swarming models (i.e., stigmergic mechanisms) to build collaborative support systems for complex cognitive tasks such as facilitation of group decision processes (GDP) in e-meetings. Unlike traditional appro... see more
Shalom Cohen,Dov Dori,Uzi de Haan
Software vendors and entrepreneurs, who try to introduce an innovative software product to a specific organization or an entire market, enter a long and tedious process. During this process, the market and various organizations evaluate the product from d... see more
Joseph Engler,Andrew Kusiak
The global marketplace over the past decade has called for innovative products and cost reduction. This perplexing duality has led companies to seek external collaborations to effectively deliver innovative products to market. External collaboration often... see more
Edison Pignaton de Freitas,Tales Heimfarth,Rodrigo Schmidt Allgayer,Flávio Rech Wagner,Tony Larsson,Carlos Eduardo Pereira,Armando Morado Ferreira
Sensor networks are being used to implement different types of sophisticated emerging applications, such as those aimed at supporting ambient intelligence and surveillance systems. This usage is enhanced by employing sensors with different characteristics... see more
H.S. Ko,S. Y. Nof
Recent and emerging advances in computer and information science and technology have realized a powerful computing and communication environment. It enables effective interactions and collaboration among groups of people and systems (and systems-of-system... see more
Chin-Yin Huang,Tung-Ting Yang,Wu-Lin Chen,Shimon Y. Nof
Issues and themes of Collaborative Design (CD) addressed by research done so far are so extensive that when running a project of collaborative design, people may lack directions or guidelines to support the whole picture. Hence, developing reference archi... see more
Dario Antonelli,Paolo Chiabert
In an enterprise, collaborative working schemes are obtained only by adopting a suitable organization of the enterprise functions. At the informative level collaboration can be enabled by using suitable project management tools for the exchange of informa... see more
Hoo Sang Ko,Shimon Y. Nof
Customer-focused and concurrent engineering service systems process tasks more effectively as a result of the power of collaboration among multiple participants. In such environments, however, complex situations might arise that require decisions beyond s... see more