Abstract
Applications designed to support the work of groups will becoming increasingly important to future distributed systems. This paper considers the role of distributed systems within the development of cooperative systems. In particular we focus on the need to provide open Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems and their impact on distributed systems. The work currently being undertaken in Open Distributed Processing (ODP) is used to highlight significant trends for future open CSCW systems. It is shown that the CSCW and ODP community share mutual interests and have complementary aims and goals that are being developed from different perspectives. Within the paper we provide a brief introduction to CSCW, highlighting the requirements CSCW places on distributed systems. The development of an environment to support open CSCW systems is introduced and briefly described. Finally, the relationships between requirements and models for Open CSCW systems and the Basic Reference Model of ODP are discussed.
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