The Collaborative Future
Thomas Marlowe, Norbert Jastroch, Susu Nousala, Vassilka Kirova
Collaboration has become an important goal in modern
ventures, across the spectrum of commercial, social, and
intellectual activities, sometimes as a mediating factor, and
sometimes as a driving, foundational principle. Research,
development, social programs, and ongoing ventures of all sorts
benefit from interactions between teams, groups, and
organizations, across intellectual disciplines and across facets
and features of the inquiry, product, entity, or activity under
consideration. We present a survey of the state of collaboration
and collaborative enterprise, in the context of papers and
presentations at the International Symposium on Collaborative
Enterprises 2011 (CENT 2011), and the extended papers
appearing in this special issue. Full Text
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