1 | Crisis Management and Command and Control or more generally distributed (tactical) real-time decision support -- decision makers and gatherers of information |
2 | Forums and Chattering on the Web -- the world! |
3 | Distance Education -- teachers and students (and administrators) |
4 | (Tele)medicine -- Doctors (primary and specialist referrals), Nurses, Patients and administrators |
5 | Business Enterprise (strategic) Support as in Lotus Notes -- Employees of Business including especially managers |
6 | Multidisciplinary Applications including Collaborative design -- teams of up to 10,000 engineers |
7 | Steering/Interactive evaluation -- one or more scientists and visualization/"hardware-in-the-loop" devices |
8 | In each case Collaboration involves support for dynamic interactive shared distributed objects and one needs both synchronous (as in Tango/Habanero) and asynchronous (basic Web/Lotus Notes/Email) support |
9 | The shared objects are both client and server side |