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- From: teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Gunnar Teege)
- Subject: Re: Request: Information about activity support systems
- In-Reply-To: teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de's message of Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:11:11 GMT
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:04:07 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:11:11 GMT, I (teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) said:
-
- > I am interested in any information about systems of the kind
- > described below. I would like to hear about existing noncommercial
- > or commercial systems as well as about systems planned or in
- > development. You may reply by mail, I will post a summary of all
- > replies in comp.groupware.
-
- > (description of systems supporting the coordination and execution of
- > activities)
-
- I received three answers by email and one answer directly in this
- group. Besides this, in the meantime I found some additional
- information myself. It seems that generally systems separate between
- supporting work coordination and supporting the work itself. The
- latter is mainly planned or must be done outside of the system.
-
- The following list is a summary of the results. (The order is of no
- significance)
-
- (If YOU and YOUR SYSTEM are not mentioned: That's because you did not
- tell me about. Do it!)
-
- 1) Action Workflow (commercial)
- -------------------------------
-
- A technology / toolkit which may be used in other systems for workflow
- management. Currently mainly by Lotus (Product: Lotus Workflow).
-
- References:
- - paper in CSCW'92 proceedings, available from ACM (p.281).
- - Release1.0 9-92 (30 sep 92) (a monthly report)
- EDventure Holdings Inc., New York
- - Report by Action Technologies, 1301 Marina Village Parkway,
- Suite 100, Almeda, Calif. 94501
-
- 2) ELF Technologies (commercial)
- --------------------------------
-
- Notes-based systems with software agents called 'elves'.
- "The elves don't just manage workflow; they do the actual work."
-
- References:
- - Release1.0 9-92 (30 sep 92) (a monthly report)
- EDventure Holdings Inc., New York
-
- 3) Michele / RT-Michele (research)
- ----------------------------------
-
- (cited from mail:)
- RT-Michele is extended version of Michele and it can handle both
- sysnchronous and asynchronous communication among workers by using
- video conference system. Both groupware systems are based on
- multiagent model that can describe parallel activities of workers and
- software processes in distributed environments. By using software
- processes the model can describe documents passed among users,
- processes that can assist workers, and so on. One of target
- application of those systems is office document processing automation.
-
- References:
-
- @article{Nakauchi92a,
- author="Y.~Nakauchi and Y.~Itoh and M.~Sato and Y.~Anzai",
- title="Modelling and Implementation of Multiagent Interface System
- for Computer-Supported Co-operative Work",
- journal="Ergonomics",
- year="1992",
- volume="35",
- number="5/6",
- pages="565--576"
- }
-
- @inproceedings{Nakauchi91b,
- author="Y.~Nakauchi and Y.~Itoh and M.~Sato and Y.~Anzai",
- title="Michele: A Multi-agent Interface Architecture for
- Distributed Open Environments",
- booktitle="Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
- (TOOLS '91)",
- year="1991",
- pages="61--69"
- }
-
- @inproceedings{Nakauchi91c,
- author="Y.~Nakauchi and T.~Okada and Y.~Itoh and Y.~Anzai",
- title="Groupware that Learns",
- booktitle="IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and
- Signal Processing",
- year="1991",
- pages="688--691"
- }
-
- @inproceedings{Nakauchi92d,
- author="Y.~Nakauchi and E.~Miyoshi and T.~Okada and Y.~Anzai",
- title="Computer-Mediated Cooperative Work in Distributed Office
- Environment",
- booktitle="International Conference on Economics/Management and Information
- Technology (CEMIT92/CECOIA3)",
- year="1992",
- pages="295--298"
- }
-
- Contact:
- ; Yasushi Nakauchi (nakauchi@aa.cs.keio.ac.jp)
- ;; Anzai-Amano Lab., Dept. of Computer Science, Keio Univ.
- ;;; TEL: +81-45-560-1070 FAX: +81-45-560-1064
-
- 4) Universitaet-GH Paderborn (research)
- ----------------------------------------
-
- System in early development. (cited from mail:)
- A "workflow-enabled groupware system" based on the development
- platform of Lotus Notes. The aim is to support the structuring and
- tracking of all activities involved with editing and routing of
- documents.
- It is planned to support programmed activities.
-
- Contact:
- Wolfgang Hilpert
- EUCOS (Enduser Computing / Office Systems)
- Universitaet-GH Paderborn
- Wirtschaftsinformatik 2
- Warburger Str. 100
- 4790 Paderborn - Germany
-
- Internet : Whilpert.Notes@MHS.UNI-Paderborn.de
- Voice : (49) 52 51 / 60 3889
- FAX : (49) 52 51 / 60 3399
-
- 5) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (research)
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- References:
-
- Reinwald, Wedekind: Integrierte Aktivitaeten- und Datenverwaltung zur
- systemgestuetzten Kontroll- und Datenflussteuerung.
- Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung 7 (1992): 73-82
-
- Reinwald, B.: Ablaufsteuerung in CIM-Systemen.
- CIM Management 6/92
-
- Reinwald, B.; Wedekind, H.: Automation of Control and Data Flow in Distributed
- Application Systems.
- In: Tjoa, A.; Ramos, I. (eds.): Database and Expert Systems Applications.
- Proceedings of the International Conference (DEXA '92, Valencia, Spain).
- Wien et al.: Springer-Verlag, 1992, S. 475-481
-
- Contact:
- Berthold Reinwald reinwald@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Tel.: +49-9131-85-7901
- Lehrstuhl fuer Datenbanksysteme Fax: +49-9131-32090
- Martensstr. 3, W-8520 Erlangen
-
- 6) EuroCoOp (research)
- ----------------------
-
- Esprit-Project "aims to develop powerful and effective systems for
- supporting distributed cooperative work." Currently a Model and a
- Toolkit for task coordination is developed. Supporting the tasks is
- planned.
-
- References:
-
- - P. Hennessy, T. Kreifelts, U. Ehrlich: Distributed work management:
- activity coordination within the EuroCoOp project. In: computer
- communications, vol. 15 no. 8 October 1992
-
-
- Gunnar Teege Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
- PO-Box 202420, 8000 Muenchen 2, Germany
- teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Tel: +49 89 450552 25
-