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berthold@faui60.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Berthold Reinwald) writes:

>In article <TEEGE.92Oct28091111@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
>(Gunnar Teege) writes:
>> 
>> I am interested in any information about systems of the kind described
>> below. I would like to hear about existing noncommercial or commercial
>> systems as well as about systems planned or in development. You may
>> reply by mail, I will post a summary of all replies in comp.groupware.
>> 
>> The system should cover the structuring, protocolling and execution of
>> activities of one person like editing and printing documents,
>> executing typical ``office procedures'' or communicating with others.
>> The system should know about complex activities which involve
>> sequential and/or parallel subactivities and it should keep track
>> about how far the complex activity has proceeded. This should include
>> asynchronous coordination in a way e.g. the Coordinator handles it.
>> The system should execute activities that can be done by the computer
>> itself (like sending email or printing an electronic document),
>> however it should not be restricted to activities of this kind.

Sounds like you're interested in "workflow management" software.  Try:
	Action Technologies
	1301 Marina Village Parkway
	Alameda, CA 94501
	rmm@ati.mhs.compuserve.com
   read their paper in CSCW'92 proceedings, available from ACM (p.281).

	TOGETHER
	Coordination Technology, Inc.
	35 Corporate Drive
	Trumbull, CN 06611

	ODMS
	Odesta Corporation
	Northbrook, IL

	NCR Cooperation
	Dayton, OH

greg