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Companies have increasingly distributed their teams to increase productivity and quality, and to reduce their costs in software development processes. This scenario has brought new challenges to effective collaboration and to enhance communication across peers. Pragmatic interoperability has been considered as one of the key requirements to tackle these challenges. However, there is lack of research...
The success rate of delivering services in tourism business depends on the successful collaboration with suitable supply chain partners. It makes partner evaluation process critically very important, yet there is currently no available unified evaluation framework in the existing research. Limited by the qualitative nature of evaluation criteria and the incompleteness of available information, the...
Consensus reaching process can be seen as a collaborative process in which a panel of decision makers or experts reach an agreement on developing and supporting an alternative representing their best interests. In this process some decision maker(s) may be asked to modify his/her preference(s) or opinion(s) until the final agreement within the whole can be achieved. In this paper, we propose a consensus...
Proactive recommender systems are smart applications which deliver the recommendations on users' mobile devices automatically, without their intervention. Such systems help the users in timely reception of the information of their interest. Improving user's acceptance on pushed recommendations of these systems is a challenging task. In these systems, determining right push context (situation) and...
This paper examines the mechanics and the implications of remediated practices in the context of virtual cross-organizational collaboration. Our treatment of the issue is informed by a case study aiming to assess how imbrications of representations hosted by different social media enable or constrain peer co-engagement of members in a virtual partnership. To this effect, we draw upon theories of agency...
The emerging empirical literature on Open Source communities indicates that a majority of code writing and communication activity is concentrated with a few contributors, the “core” (maintainers). However, these communities allow and encourage participation from anybody, the “periphery”. The focus of this work is on explaining how distributed communities solve software problems through the participation...
In this paper, we propose a new annotation scheme for Japanese response tokens (RTs), which is based on strict and consistent procedures. Our scheme consists of two-stage annotation, in which RTs are first identified and classified according to their forms and then further sub-classified based on their sequential positions. Six forms are included in our class of RTs: i) responsive interjections, ii)...
Requirements elicitation is challenging in research oriented projects which usually focus on innovations in terms of providing boundary-pushing solutions that potentially change current work practice for the users in the domain of interest. Hence, requirements engineers need to find a way to bring together the diverse expectation and interests within the context of fast moving technologies and conservative...
Researchers at the University of Idaho (UI) have developed a fleet of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) that autonomously and collaboratively engage in mine-countermeasure (MCM) and magnetic signature assessment (MSA) missions. The use of intervehicle acoustic messages is instrumental in successful completion of these types of missions. In what follows, we argue that enabling the UUVs to anticipate...
For purposes of matching human resources to tasks, a manager might be interested, at first, in evaluating the different candidates according to the specific required criteria of the tasks. Those evaluations are considered as a good a priori definition of a selection problem variables. In the framework of the paper, we intend to provide a decision making tool to the manager for solving the multi-criteria...
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