Synchronous, distributed collaborative writing for policy agenda setting using Collaboratus, an Internet-based collaboration tool

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Lowry, P B ^a   Nunamaker, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Communication system control; Distributed control; Information management; Internet; Proposals; Testing; Writing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL WRITING; TESTING;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE TOOLS; COLLABORATIVE WORK; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; PROPOSALS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84948675456     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.993860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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