A technology for pattern-based process design and its application to collaboration engineering / Gwen L. Kolfschoten, Rjobert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vreede -- Pattern-based tool design for shared knowledge construction / Stephen Lukosch -- Creative waves: exploring emerging online cultures, social networking and creative collaboration through e-learning to offer visual campaigns for local kenyan health needs / Andy Polaine, Rick Bennett -- Enhancing university students' interaction and learning through formative peer-assessment online / Monica Liljeström -- Preparing the next generation of innovators through collaboration / Marjorie Darrah, Angela Dowling -- Social networking sites (SNS) and the narcissistic turn: The politics of self-exposure / Yasmin Ibrahim -- Wikis for collaboration & knowledge management: current practices & future directions / Clif Kussmaul -- Maximizing collaboration using topic maps-based ontology / Myongho Yi -- Collaborative retrieval systems: reusable information quests / Ying Sun -- Automatically evaluating the quality of contents created in collaborative / Kwong Bor Ng -- Speak first, then what? / Jay Heuer -- Collaboration in open source domains: a perspective on usability / Görkem Çetin, Mehmet Gokturk -- Lights, camera, action! via teacher librarian video conferencing / Lesley Farmer -- Collaboration in risk markets / Scott Rummler.

Collaborative design: an SSM-enabled organizational learning approach / Anita Mirijamdotter, Mary M. Somerville -- How do collaborative technologies affect innovation in SME's? / Angel Luis Meroño-Cerdán, Pedro Soto-Acosta, Caroline López-Nicolás -- Enabling on-line deliberation and collective decision-making through large-scale argumentation .. / Luca Iandoli, Mark Klein, Giuseppe Zollo -- Gender and diversity in collaborative virtual teams / Anna Michailidou, Anastasios Economides -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.