Intelligent workflow techniques for distributed group facilitation

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 597-605

  Zhao, J L ^a   Nunamaker, J F ^a   Briggs, R O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GroupSystemscom   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Computer networks; Computer vision; Control systems; Distributed control; Humans; Intelligent agent; Process control; Prototypes; Software agents

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PROCESS MONITORING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; FACILITATION FUNCTIONS; FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENTS; HUMANS; PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL; PROTOTYPES; REQUIREMENTS NEGOTIATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 22944474674     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.993940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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