Towards a CSCW Framework for Scientific Cooperation in Europe

This monograph presents the still young, but already large and very active interdisciplinary realm of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) in a systematic and well-balanced way. Besides technical progress also the cultural, social, legal, psychological and economic aspects of CSCW are discussed. The book makes accessible a wealth of information and culminates in the development and detailed discussion of a "Collaboratory" suitable to fulfil the needs of scientific cooperation in Europe.
The book addresses CSCW research and development professionals as well as the general scientist interested in CSCW-based scientific cooperation. The bibliography with its more than 600 entries and the subject index are particularly comprehensive and helpful.

Inhalt
and road map.- An introduction to CSCW.- Foundations of scientific cooperation.- Today's organisational and technical environment for scientific cooperation in Europe.- An European Collaboratory for supporting scientific cooperation.- Implications of the E-Collaboratory for a future European computing and network infrastructure.- Migrating towards an European scientific collaboratory.- Concluding remarks and future directions.