Reading Course for the
Winter term 2002
Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland – visiting Dr. Ulieru
Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
This course is
oriented towards graduates who have serious interest in Computer Supported
Cooperative Work and who already have some basic
knowledge in this area.
The course is a
combination of reading and seminar course. A list of readings, organized by
topic, will be provided to students. Students are supposed to present and
discuss the readings and their implications. It is expected that they take
ownership of particular topics, and it will be their responsibility to gather
and distribute the readings, and to run the class on that topic.
This course will
cover selected, more recent topics in Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW).
The topics will depend on the interests of the students:
A possible structure of the course is:
1.
CSCW-Tools
(Groupware) and their application
2.
New
Paradigms in CSCW: The Holonic
a.
Web-Centric
Virtual Enterprises
b.
Modeling
Enterprises as Agents
c.
The Holonic
3.
Multi-Agent
Systems: Issues relevant to CSCW
a.
Agents as
autonomous systems
b.
Agents as holons
c.
Cooperation,
Coordination and Negotiation in MAS
4.
Basic
techniques and tools
a.
Communication-oriented
synchronous tools
b.
Communication-oriented
asynchronous tools
c.
Tools for
coordination
d.
Collaboration-oriented
synchronous tools
e.
Collaboration-oriented
asynchronous tools
5.
Architectures
of CSCW systems
a.
Synchronous
architectures
b.
Enterprise-related
groupware platforms
c.
MAS
architectures (FIPA architectural standard)
d.
Agent
Platforms (Agentcities)
6.
Generally
applicable tools and techniques
a.
Workflow
management systems
b.
Tele
conference systems
c.
Group
(decision) support systems resp. electronic meeting
systems
7.
Domain
specific tools and techniques
a.
Cooperative
teaching and learning
b.
Cooperative
Software Development
c.
Community-Support
Systems
8.
CSCW-related
concepts
a.
Adaptability
b.
Awareness
c.
Collaborative
Filtering
d.
Anonymity
e.
Parallelism
f.
Shared
material and group resp. organizational memory
g.
Group
productivity
9.
More
recent approaches and visions
a.
Ubiquitous
computing
b.
Cooperative
buildings and roomware
c.
Community-Support
Systems