Component technologies are perceived as an important means to keep software architectures flexible. Flexibility offered by componenttechnologies typically addresses software developers at design time. However, the design of software which should support socialsystems, such as work groups or...

This contribution is a long-term study of the evolving use of the organization-widegroupware in a service network. We are describing the practices related to organization-wide groupwarein conjunction with local groupware-related practices and how they have proceeded since theorganization was...

I received a masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, specializing in Database Systems and Artificial Intelligence. Becoming more and more interested into the interplay between social systems and software systems, I decided to work in much more...

Although the idea of electronically networked individuals forming a community is one of the oldest visions in computer science, it has never been a research issue a community of computer scientists was dedicated to. Neither had group work been before it evolved as a research issue in the...