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         DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
           COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

                   BARNEY'S
         MONDAY AFTERNOON CLUB SEMINAR

     Speaker:	Professor Clarence (Skip) Ellis
	        Department of Computer Science
	        University of Colorado, Boulder

        Date:	October 28, 1995
        Time:	3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
        Place:	100 USC

      Refreshments:  following the talk

COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY:  MODELS AND SYSTEMS

Workflow technology has been steadily gaining in 
popularity--it can now be found everywhere from the 
White House in Washington, D.C. to food stands in 
Beijing, China. This talk will begin by briefly 
introducing, with examples, the concepts of collab-
orative computing and workflow. 

What are the research issues in this discipline? 
What is the future of workflow? What are the 
obstacles? We will then present a conceptual meta-
model that includes communication, coordination, 
interface, and ontological aspects of collaborative 
computing systems. The second half of the talk will 
explain research work ongoing within the Collaboration 
Technology Research Group at the University of 
Colorado to build a future generation workflow pro-
totype. As an example of ongoing research, we will 
discuss the "dynamic change/exception handling" 
problem that is currently unsolved in the research 
forefront.  We will conclude the talk by listing 
some potential barriers to the success of future 
collaboration technology.

Dr. Clarence (Skip) Ellis is a Professor of 
Computer Science, faculty member of the Institute 
for Cognitive Science, and Co-Director of the 
Collaboration Technology Research Group at the 
University of Colorado.