Workspace networks for supporting collaborative work
Professor Igor Hawryszkiewycz, igirh@socs.uts.edu.au
School of Computing Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
Tuesday 11 August
Abstract
The seminar will describe a workspace network designed to facilitate
knowledge sharing within a distributed organization. It will first
describe
the evolution of knowledge into specialized forms and processes that
must be supported to help individuals share their specialized knowledge
to improve the quality of their products and services.
The seminar will then continue by showing how such processes can be
supported using groupware and Web based technologies. It will emphasize
the trend from highly structured workflow, which support fixed work
patterns, to workspace networks, that allow technology to be adapted to
changing work patterns. The seminar will outline properties needed for
workflow systems to become suitable for knowledge sharing and show how
these properties can
be realized with more flexible workspace networks. The major requirement
is for such networks is to be flexible and allow users themselves to
compose and change the network workspaces as their collaborative
practices and knowledge needs change.
The seminar will then describe an architecture based on tailorable
components for composing workspace networks and a prototype system,
which has been developed using the Java language. It will then
illustrate its application with some examples.
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