Designing Computational Places for Communities within Organizations

Federico Cabitza; Marco P. Locatelli; Carla Simone

2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Designing Computational Places for Communities within Organizations

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361854,
    author={Federico Cabitza and Marco P. Locatelli and Carla Simone},
    title={Designing Computational Places for Communities within Organizations},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2007},
    month={5},
    keywords={Cooperative systems Collaborative work Programming environments Computer applications},
    doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361854}
}

Federico Cabitza
Marco P. Locatelli
Carla Simone
Year: 2007
Designing Computational Places for Communities within Organizations
COLLABORATECOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361854

Federico Cabitza¹^,*, Marco P. Locatelli¹^,*, Carla Simone¹^,*

1: Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

*Contact email: cabitza@disco.unimib.it, locatelli@disco.unimib.it, simone@disco.unimib.it

Abstract

The paper focuses on collaboration that is achieved inside communities thriving within organizations. The nature of the communities and their connections with the institutional technologies embedding the organizational prescriptions require the construction of places where the communities can construct and maintain their local memory, policies and conventions. The paper proposes a framework (i.e., a model and the related language) supporting the construction of such places (i.e., fulcra) and illustrates its use by means of a scenario derived from previous empirical investigations on communities of practice.

Keywords: Cooperative systems Collaborative work Programming environments Computer applications

Published: 2007-05-21
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361854