Infrastructure management as cooperative work: Implications for systems design

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-122

  Sandusky, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary objects; Communities of practice; CSCW; Distributed supervisory control; Information compounds; Real time supervisory control

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCADA SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY OBJECTS; DISTRIBUTED SUPERVISORY CONTROL; INFORMATION COMPOUNDS; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SUPERVISORY CONTROL;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0037223242     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022465603388     Document Type: Article

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