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A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations

A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations

Eldar Sultanow, Edzard Weber, Sean Cox
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 1548-3673|EISSN: 1548-3681|EISBN13: 9781613506738|DOI: 10.4018/jec.2011010101
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Sultanow, Eldar, et al. "A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations." IJEC vol.7, no.1 2011: pp.1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jec.2011010101

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Sultanow, E., Weber, E., & Cox, S. (2011). A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations. International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), 7(1), 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jec.2011010101

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Sultanow, Eldar, Edzard Weber, and Sean Cox. "A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations," International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) 7, no.1: 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jec.2011010101

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Abstract

Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has consistently faced the challenge of intense awareness extensively more than locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency for easy routes where personnel can navigate and access pertinent information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and context-sensitive way. Even as awareness has become a more pressing topic, extensive disagreement still remains concerning how any type of transparency can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces an awareness model to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers using semantic networks, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Web3D. Ultimately, the model presented is used for an evaluation from a business organization’s perspective.

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