The elements of collective decision making -- Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning -- Individual reasoning within a reasoning community -- The generic/actual argument model -- Communicating reasoning and dialectics -- Narrative reasoning -- Ontologies and the semantic web -- Pragmatic...

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This book is of importance to practitioners and researchers because it brings together in a single accessible source, a variety of current research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams. Geographic distance, technology, lack of social presence, lack of adequate training...

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through...