What is Group

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Any set of people who consider themselves a group (Bales, 1950; De Sanctis and Gallupe, 1987). Learn more in: The Social Requirements of Technical Systems

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The traditional kind of Many used in education, exemplified in the classroom. Many: A generic term describing a collection of individuals. Learn more in: How the Crowd Can Teach

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A number of person gathered or classified together. Learn more in: Communication: The Role of the Johari Window on Effective Leadership Communication in Multinational Corporations

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In the UK, at the local level, political parties are not formally recognised and the elected members form political groups in place of political parties. The groups are formed along party lines, however. Learn more in: Understanding the Dialectic Relationship between Intraand Inter-Organizational Cooperation

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A set of between 3 to 25 interdependent individuals that share a common task or goal. Learn more in: Psychological Contracts' Influence on E-Collaboration

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A set of users. Learn more in: Sharing Protected Web Resources

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Classical algebraic structure formed by a nonempty set of elements and an operation satisfying associativity, existence of a neutral element, and existence of an inverse element for every element in the set. Learn more in: NeutroGroups Generated by Uninorms: A Theoretical Approach

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The group of robots including an initiator and the recruited robots. A group is associated to each initiator in the swarm. Learn more in: Distributed Algorithms for Recruitment and Coordinated Motion in Swarm Robotic Systems

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A set of related and interacting elements. Learn more in: Synthesis of the Laws of Motion Control of a UAV Group With Natural Obstacles

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Algebraic structure consisting of a set of elements and an operation satisfying a law of composition, associativity, the existence of a neutral element, and every element has an opposite or an inverse. Learn more in: Theoretical Study of the NeutroAlgebra Generated by the Combining Function in Prospector and Some Pedagogical Notes

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A number of individuals responsible for the joint completion of a task that exceeds their individual capabilities. Learn more in: Collective Meaning in E-Collaborating Groups

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A simple kind of organization characterized by participants having comparable authority about the group’s task (e.g., decision making), little in the way of formal division of labor, and few restrictions on who can communicate with whom. (Holsapple & Whinston, 1996) Learn more in: GSS Research for E-Collaboration