Semistructured Messages are Surprisingly Useful for Computer-Supported Coordination

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 115-131

  Malone, Thomas W ^a   Grant, Kenneth R ^a   Lai, Kum Yew ^a   Rao, Ramana ^a   Rosenblitt, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; information lens; semistructured messages

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; OFFICE AUTOMATION; TELECONFERENCING;

COMPUTER CONFERENCING; COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION LENS; INFORMATION SHARING; SEMISTRUCTURED MESSAGES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023325205     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/27636.27637     Document Type: Article

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