A Network Talk on CSCW - Defining CSCW by the Use of the Network Formalism

Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) is based on some fundamental concepts which are defined ambiguously. In our view it is necessary to find definitions of the elementary CSCW-concepts like ‘co-operative work’, ‘logical dependency’, ‘time dependency’ and ‘power’ in order to derive criteria to distinguish between technical systems which are CSCW-systems and others which are not. Petri nets are an appropriate language helping to formulate these definitions.