Agent Supported Cooperative Work
Improvements in computer networking have heralded great expectations for computer-mediated distributed work. However, experience has revealed that, as information flow improves, a central problem for distributed workers is the administration, management a
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MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS International Book Series Series Editor: Gerhard Weiss Technische Universitat Munchen Editorial Board: Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Yves Demazeau, CNRS Laboratoire LEIBNIZ, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan. USA Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC, USA Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Gerhard Weiss, Technical University of Munich, Germany (Series Editor) Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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AGENTSUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK
Edited by
YimingYe IBM, T.J. Watson Researeh Center
Elizabeth Churchill FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Ine.
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AGENT SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK edited by Yiming Ye, Elizabeth Churchill ISBN 978-1-4613-4834-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-9200-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9200-0
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Contents
Contributors
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Acknowledgements
xvii
Preface
xix
Agent Supported Cooperative Work: an Introduction
1
YIMING YE AND ELIZABETH CHURCHILL
Agent-Augmented Meetings
27
CLARENCE ELLIS, JACQUES WAINER, AND PAULO BARTHELMESS
Using Age
