COOP'98 is the Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (following on COOP'95 and COOP'96). It will take place in Cannes, France, from 26-29th May, 1998.

Objectives

• a better comprehension of human-human and human-machine cooperative work processes;

• the development of models of ccoperation and cooperative work from different perspectives;

• the development of appropriate design methodologies and of new functionalities for cooperative systems.

Topics

• What models of cooperation can be achieved for human-computer interaction (in particular for collective problem solving in workplaces)?

• What are the characterizations of cooperative, heterogeneous agents (i.e. human agents and software agents)?

• What lessons do we learn from empirical studies of cooperative work?

• What frameworks/methodologies can be offered for building cooperative systems (for example, for knowledge acquisition and validation or evaluation of cooperative systems)?

• How to identify appropriate agents to involve in a task, and the cooperative interactions required to perform a task (e.g. synchronous or asynchronous interactions) ?

• Which techniques are helpful for collective problem solving?

• What are the possible architectures for cooperative systems?

• What communication skills are required for the use of cooperative systems? What kinds of dialogues, negotiation or explanation techniques, or user models, are relevant for cooperative systems?

• How to provide a cooperative system for supporting a workgroup? In particular, how to build intelligent computer environments for facilitating cooperation among users of diverse abilities during a problem-solving process?

• What lessons have been learned from the implementation and integration of actual cooperative systems?

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