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From: quasar@bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Groupware Administration and Registration
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Date: 2 Apr 91 16:58:39 GMT
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I'm writing a paper on groupware administration and registration, in
light of a family of systems I've developed.

I'm looking for references on work on this topic. I find hardly anything
in CSCW '86-90, for example.

Specifically, I'm interested in general mechanisms, architectures, and
formalisms for doing the following:

	* apprising network users of the existence of running conferences
	* allowing users access control to these conferences (ie, joining,
	leaving, etc.)
	* performing other administrative function including conference
	initiation, termination, security functions, scheduling, etc.

("Conference" means instance of running groupware application to me).

Naturally, some of these things happen in the context of specific
applications. I'm interested in general mechanisms to permit these
functions to occur in the context of a heterogeneous set of applications,
which may have different internal architectures.

The only reference I've found that's even vaguely pertinent so far is
Greenberg's reference to some intelligent agents such as the "Registrar"
and so forth, and that's apparently intended to be an application-specific
mechanism, not an external system for groupware administration.

Anything else? The "related work" section of my paper is a little thin.....

Thanks in advance.... Oh by the way, the work is all still proprietary
at least until I can publish an external paper.

-- 
	         Laurence R. Brothers (quasar@bellcore.com)
      Bellcore -- Computer Technology Transfer -- Knowledge-Based Systems
       "There is no memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory
            of some temptation we resisted." -- James Branch Cabell