Proceedings of the ECSCW'95 Workshop on the Role of Version Control in CSCW Applications

The workshop entitled "The Role of Version Control in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Applications" was held on September 10, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden in conjunction with the ECSCW'95 conference. Version control, the ability to manage relationships between successive instances of artifacts, organize those instances into meaningful structures, and support navigation and other operations on those structures, is an important problem in CSCW applications. It has long been recognized as a critical issue for inherently cooperative tasks such as software engineering, technical documentation, and authoring. The primary challenge for versioning in these areas is to support opportunistic, open-ended design processes requiring the preservation of historical perspectives in the design process, the reuse of previous designs, and the exploitation of alternative designs. The primary goal of this workshop was to bring together a diverse group of individuals interested in examining the role of versioning in Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Participation was encouraged from members of the research community currently investigating the versioning process in CSCW as well as application designers and developers who are familiar with the real-world requirements for versioning in CSCW. Both groups were represented at the workshop resulting in an exchange of ideas and information that helped to familiarize developers with the most recent research results in the area, and to provide researchers with an updated view of the needs and challenges faced by application developers. In preparing for this workshop, the organizers were able to build upon the results of their previous one entitled "The Workshop on Versioning in Hypertext" held in conjunction with the ECHT'94 conference. The following section of this report contains a summary in which the workshop organizers report the major results of the workshop. The summary is followed by a section that contains the position papers that were accepted to the workshop. The position papers provide more detailed information describing recent research efforts of the workshop participants as well as current challenges that are being encountered in the development of CSCW applications. A list of workshop participants is provided at the end of the report. The organizers would like to thank all of the participants for their contributions which were, of course, vital to the success of the workshop. We would also like to thank the ECSCW'95 conference organizers for providing a forum in which this workshop was possible

Educational hypermedia resources facilitator

Se analiza el impacto que la enseñanza en web ha tenido en la educación superior y las distintas herramientas que permiten la creación de documentos hipertexto como recursos de enseñanzaWithin the university the introduction of computers is creating a new criterion of differentiation between those who as a matter of course become integrated in the technocratic trend deriving from the daily use of these machines and those who become isolated by not using them. This difference increases when computer science and communications merge to introduce virtual educational areas, where the conjunction of teacher and pupil in the space-time dimension is no longer an essential requirement, andwhere the written text is replaced (or rather complemented) by the digital text. In this article a historical defence is made of the presence of this new standard in the creation of digital educational resources such as the hyperdocument, as well as the barriers and technological problems deriving from its use. Furthermore, HyCo, an authoring tool, is introduced which facilitates the composition of hypertexts, which arestored as semantic learning objects, looking for that through of a simple and extremely intuitive interface and interaction model, any teacher with a minimum knowledge of computer science has the possibility of transforming his or her experience and knowledge into useful and quality hypermedia educational resources

Revisión sistemática de la literatura sobre el desarrollo de sistemas colaborativos

Los sistemas colaborativos fueron concebidos para compartir información y coordinar actividades entre sus usuarios. Entendemos que existe una marcada complejidad tecnológica en desarrollar ambientes con estas características. Su diseño y desarrollo suele estar soportado por diversas herramientas y frameworks. Por otra parte, una revisión sistemática de la literatura es un medio para identificar, evaluar e interpretar todas las investigaciones relevantes disponibles a una pregunta de investigación particular. Es un proceso que consta de una serie de pasos secuenciales bien definidos que permiten conducir a una investigación. Motivadas en esto último, este trabajo desarrolla una revisión sistemática de la literatura con el fin de evaluar el estado del arte con respecto a aquellas herramientas de diseño disponibles para diseñar sistemas colaborativos.Facultad de Informátic

Modelado de sistemas colaborativos

La tesis propone un lenguaje específico de dominio (DSL) para modelar Sistemas Colaborativos (CSSL - Collaborative Software System Language). Este lenguaje fue diseñado como una extensión de UML usando el mecanismo de metamodelado y posee una sintaxis abstracta formalizada que permitirá entre otras cosas definir más de una sintaxis concreta a partir de ella, lo cual aumenta la legibilidad y flexibilidad del lenguaje. Finalmente se presenta una guía que facilita la construcción de Sistemas Colaborativos. Dentro del paradigma MDD (Model Driven Development) y utilizando el lenguaje CSSL se describe las etapas iniciales de un método para modelar los Sistemas Colaborativos.Facultad de Informátic

A Multi-user storyboard-based authoring system.

by Steve Tai-Man Wong.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65).TABLE OF FIGURES --- p.iChapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Contributions --- p.4Chapter 1.2 --- Thesis Organization --- p.5Chapter 2 --- BACKGROUND --- p.6Chapter 3 --- THE MUSAS AUTHORING SYSTEM --- p.11Chapter 3.1 --- The Storyboard-based Authoring System and Extension --- p.11Chapter 3.2 --- The Editor-Authors Hierarchy --- p.18Chapter 3.3 --- The Multi-agents Architecture --- p.22Chapter 3.3.1 --- The RESAgent --- p.22Chapter 3.3.2 --- The SalesAgent --- p.31Chapter 3.3.3 --- The WatcherAgent --- p.36Chapter 3.3.4 --- The NeedleAgent --- p.38Chapter 4 --- IMPLEMENTATION --- p.42Chapter 4.1 --- The Project Builder --- p.42Chapter 4.2 --- The Timetable Editor --- p.46Chapter 4.3 --- The Multi-agents Architecture --- p.47Chapter 4.4 --- The WatcherAgent --- p.49Chapter 4.5 --- The SalesAgent --- p.49Chapter 4.6 --- The RESAgent --- p.50Chapter 5 --- CASE STUDY --- p.53Chapter 6 --- FUTURE WORK --- p.60Chapter 7 --- CONCLUSION --- p.62REFERENCES --- p.64Chapter APPENDIX A --- INSTALLATION PROCEDURE --- p.66Chapter APPENDIX B --- THE USER'S MANUAL --- p.67Chapter APPENDIX C --- CLASS DIAGRAMS --- p.90Chapter APPENDIX D --- THE PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE --- p.9

Sistema de qualidade ISO 9000 : apos a certificação, Como esta a documentação?

Orientador: Charly KunziDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matematica Estatistica e Computação CientificaResumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é apontar a importância de uma documentação eficiente para o sucesso de um Sistema da Qualidade para as empresas que visam a certificação ISO 9000. Ou melhor, para garantir a manutenção da certificação mesmo após as auditorias de inspeção. Neste trabalho, portanto, serão apresentados os fundamentos do Sistema de Qualidade ISO 9000, ressaltando a relevância da documentação para obter a certificação. Também será apresentada a teoria que subsidia um Sistema de Groupware e informações sobre alguns produtos disponíveis no mercado para o desenvolvimento e automatização de Trabalhos em Grupo. Os estudos de caso, apresentados no final desta dissertação, vêm ilustrar o sucesso na utilização dessa ferramenta no Sistema de Qualidade, no que tange à documentação. Conforme poderá ser observado no transcorrer do trabalho, essa ferramenta pode ser estendida além da documentação, auxiliando as empresas em muitos requisitos da ISO 9000. Neste trabalho iremos nos ater ao controle da documentação, voltado ao requisito 4.5 e 4.16 da norma internacionalAbstract: The main purpose of this work is to stress the importance of an efficient documentation for the success of a Quality System for Companies aiming to the ISO 9000 Certification, Le., to guarantee the certification maintenance even after the inspection auditing. Therefore, in this work, the foundations of the ISO 9000 Quality System will be presented, stressing the importance of the documentation to obtain the Certification. It will also be presented the theory that helps a GroupWare System - workgroup, and information on some products available in the market for the development and automatization of Workgroups. The study of each case, submitted in the end of this essay, comes to illustrate the success in using this tool in the Quality System, on what the documentation is concerned. As per above explanation, this tool can be extend to beyond the documentation, helping the Companies in many of the ISO 9000 requirements. In this work we will attain ourselves to the documentation control, based on requirement 4.5 and 4.16 of the international normMestradoMestre em Qualidad