Delegation of Tasks and Dissemination of Information in Organizations: Restructuring Internet E-Mail for Doing Things

In this paper we consider e-mail as a task management tool. We present and discuss the results of an explorative study of task management in a user’s daily electronic life. Our general goal is to restructure the domain of Internet e-mail. The purpose is to make it even more suitable for cooperative, message-based communication in both virtual and real organizations. Specifically, we aim to design a control mechanism to support the identification and delegation of tasks and dissemination of information to users in an organization employing e-mail. The users are characterized by high mail traffic and a need to manage e-mail in different organizational roles. A tentative solution and a prototype are briefly described, using a previously developed conceptual model of information management in e-mail as a starting point

Teoretiko-methodical aspects of account of production and realization of products on enterprises

Розглянуто економічну сутність «готової продукції»; визначено, що правильний облік виробництва і реалізації готової продукції – це необхідний елемент управління підприємств різних форм власностіEconomic essence of the «prepared products is considered»; certainly, that a correct account of production and realization of the prepared products is necessary custom of enterprises of different patterns of ownership contro

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the WWW Web Assistants: Towards an Intelligent and Personal Web Shop

Abstract: Electronic commerce has recently shown enormous potential to take over the sales market. There is a need to provide services that can reach individual computer users with different information profiles and levels of expertise. In this paper we introduce the novel concept of web assistants, human assistants working in an electronic web shop. This humancomputer cooperation provides intelligent and personal services via an integrated communication media. A prototype of a web assistant system has been implemented. While browsing through the system the user can call for human assistance should the need arise. We present the results of a usability study performed on our prototype system. The results are encouraging especially when it comes to the attitude aspects of usability. The subjects were extremely enthusiastic about the concept of web assistants and its implications