Supporting collaboration in heterogeneous environments

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 199-228

  Krebs, Allan M ^a   Dorohonceanu, Bogdan ^b   Marsic, Ivan ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Heterogeneity; Information systems; Middleware; Mobile devices

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EVENT DISTRIBUTION; HETEROGENEITY; SYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 3142713798     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2004.11045787     Document Type: Article

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