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This paper discusses a supporting tool for distributed individual work to develop specifications in cooperative situation. Our supporting tool consists of two parts — one is method base for individual use, and another is a structured electronic mail system for communication use. Method base has various catalogued specification & design methods, so a worker can select a suitable method for his problem domain. It can integrate the products developed by team members with the different methods into one. Our structured electronic mail system supports 1) sending and receiving the products with messages or with comments, 2) automatically notifying the modification of products and the progress status of development activities, 3) composing comprehensive mails by using templates, and 4) storing mails in structured mail folders and retrieving them.
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Saeki, M., Sureerat, S., Yoshida, K. (1995). Supporting distributed individual work in cooperative specification development. In: Bhalla, S. (eds) Information Systems and Data Management. CISMOD 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60584-3_35
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