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What is Ad-Hoc Collaboration

Chapter 61
Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
The type of collaboration that emerges spontaneously and does not follow a predefined process.
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Interaction and Context in Service-Oriented E-Collaboration Environments
Christoph Dorn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Giovanni Giuliani (HP Italiana SRL, Italy), Robert Gombotz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Ke Ning (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Sébastien Peray (European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany), Stephan Reiff-Marganiec (University of Leicester, UK), Daniel Schall (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), and Marcel Tilly (European Microsoft Innovation Center, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch060
Abstract
As it has been observed in the recent decade, collaborating teams become ever more unstable, less tightly coupled and more distributed and mobile. Workers participate in multiple teams that pursue different goals that need not be related in any way. This radical way in which the workplace is changing for the individual and the team requires highly adaptable groupware and intelligent support for the individual in order to minimize the time lost for management and coordination when switching between different teams, different workspaces, and different contexts. Thus, a service-oriented approach seems promising to provide individual, context-aware building blocks for adaptable groupware.
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