CPSE Workshop
1999 Workshop on Collaborative Problem Solving Environments.
PNNL researchers organized a
workshop
on collaborative problem-solving environments (CPSEs) in San Diego, California in June 1999. The workshop attracted the participation of approximately fifty attendees with diverse professional backgrounds including universities (e.g., University of Washington, University of Michigan, CMU, USC), companies (e.g., HP, SGI, IBM), research organizations (e.g., San Diego Supercomputing Center, Scripps Research Institute, NCSA), DOE national laboratories (e.g., PNNL, ORNL, ANL, SNL), and other federal research laboratories (e.g., NOAA, NIH, NASA). The motivation for the workshop was to bring together researchers and developers from industry, academia, and government to identify, define, and discuss future directions in collaboration and problem-solving technologies in support of scientific research. After a decade of cultivation, research and development in collaboration environments and integration frameworks have produced theories and technologies that provide basic levels of support and functionality. For this workshop, we sought to step beyond the present foundation of collaborative problem-solving technology and capabilities to project into the future - evolving current research and technology towards new theories, designs, and architectures that would meet the needs of modern and future scientific work.