CSCW and Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Towards a Cooperative Software Agent

   • M. Smyth

   Pages 1-11

3. A Framework for Negotiation

   • R. Jones, E. Edmonds

   Pages 13-22

4. Environments for Cooperating Agents: Designing the Interface as Medium

   • A. Dix, J. Finlay, J. Hassell

   Pages 23-37

5. Domain Knowledge Agents for Information Retrieval

   • D. R. McGregor, C. R. Renfrew, I. A. MacLeod

   Pages 39-46

6. Autonomous Agents in the Support of Cooperative Authorship

   • G. Staniford, P. E. S. Dunne

   Pages 47-65

7. Agency within CSCW: Towards the Development of Active Cooperative Working Environments

   • G. M. P. O’Hare, P. Dongha, L. A. Macaulay, S. Viller

   Pages 67-95

8. A Model for Supporting Interacting Knowledge Sources

   • J. G. Gammack, R. A. Stephens

   Pages 97-104

9. A Functional Model of Interacting Systems: A Semiotic Approach

   • D. Benyon

   Pages 105-125

10. Supporting Human Experts’ Collaborative Work: Modelling Organizational Context Knowledge in Cooperative Information Systems

    • S. Kirn

    Pages 127-139

11. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Supported Cooperative Working in International Contexts

    • J. H. Connolly

    Pages 141-159

12. On the Definition and Desirability of Autonomous User Agents in CSCW

    • D. Jennings

    Pages 161-173

13. Back Matter

    Pages 175-192

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Computing, despite the relative brevity of its history, has already evolved into a subject in which a fairly large number of subdisciplines can be identified. Moreover, there has been a noticeable tendency for the different branches of the subject each to develop its own intellectual culture, tradition and momentum. This is not, of course, to suggest that any individ­ ual subdiscipline has become a watertight compartment or that developments in one branch of the subject have tended to take place in total isolation from developments in other related areas. Nevertheless, it does mean that a deliberate effort is required in order to bring different subdisciplines together in a fruitful and beneficial manner. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Supported Coopera­ tive Work (CSCW) jointly constitute a good example of two branches of computing that have emerged separately and given rise to largely distinct research communities and initiatives. On the one hand, the history of AI can be traced back to the 1950s, the term II Artificial Intelligence" being generally attributed to John McCarthy, who first used it in print in 1956. "Computer Supported Cooperative Work", on the other hand, is a term of more recent coinage, having'been devised by Irene Greif and Paul Cashman in 1984.

• CSCW
• Design
• Interaction
• artificial intelligence
• behavior
• communication
• expert system
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• information retrieval
• intelligence
• modeling
• organization
• software
• software agents
• system

• LUTCHI Research Centre, Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough Leicestershire, UK

  John H. Connolly, Ernest A. Edmonds

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