2004 Asia Broadband Symposium on Digital City Collaboration

 

Intercultural Collaboration Management

 

Zhongzhi Shi

Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

 

Intercultural Collaboration Experiment pursues collaboration among heterogeneous groups across country borders. Participants can talk on the  keyboard or telephone while simultaneously viewing a document in progress and communicate in their mother languages supported by machine translation. Intercultural collaboration management emphasizes collaboration and project process. In order to facilitate the collaboration Intercultural collaboration management imposes at least three components, that is Collaboration management, knowledge management and work process. Collaboration management will support high level of interaction, communication, and coordination. Knowledge management will capture tacit knowledge, turn tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, and share explicit knowledge. Work process analyze task interdependence, document decision rationale and the work process itself. Collaborative Project Management Architecture (CPMA), is proposed by Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will support synchronous and asynchronous experiments in terms of Multiagent Environment (MAGE) and semantic Web

 

 

Zhongzhi Shi is Professor at the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing  Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IEEE Senior member. He is Chair of WG 12.3 of IFIP. He also serves China Computer Federation as Secretary-General, Vice President of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. He received the 2nd Grade National Award of Science and Technology Progress in 2002.In 1998 and 2001 he received the 2nd Grade Award of Science and Technology Progress from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include intelligence science, multiagent systems, Semantic Web.

 

He published 10 books, edited 11 books and more than 300 technical papers. His most recent books are Intelligent Agent and Applications and Knowledge Discovery in Chinese. Contact him at shizz@ics.ict.ac.cn. Homepages is http://www.intsci.ac.cn/shizz.