Current and Planned Research

The research on CASCADE and collaborative authoring has been in low gear for the last year while the transition was made from an X windows prototype to a client server prototype. Some of the earlier research papers may be found attached to the homepage of Michael B. Spring

The current research papers have been immediately preceded by reports to NIST on collaborative authoring. As a part of the contract with NIST, we surveyed the available software that might be used to support collaboration. The report is entitled Software to Support Collaboration: Focus on Collaborative Authoring

Two draft conference submissions are included here for review and comment. Both exist here in PDF form.

In addition, a number of students have been working on papers and research projects that relate to the effort. Some of these will be appearing below as they are readied for exposure. They include studies of hallways in support of collaboration, the development of network protocols, problems of normalization in SGML documents, and statistical views of users and documents in collaborative environments.