Memory-Based Feedback Controls to Support Groupware Coordination

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 366-385

  Bordetsky, Alex ^a   Mark, Gloria ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Awareness; Case Based Reasoning; Collaborative Technology; Conventions; Coordination; Feedback Control; Groupware; Intelligent Agents; Organizational Memory

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GROUPWARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AWARENESS; COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; CONVENTIONS; COORDINATION; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 0034557490     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.4.366.11871     Document Type: Article

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