Abstract
A Cooperating Object is composed of several devices that need to exhibit certain features according to the definition. Each of the devices contributes functionality to the overall Cooperating Object, but the modularisation helps to keep the single devices simple and maintainable.
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsNotes
- 1.
Cooperation and competition can also be seen as orthogonal instead of opposed. Both span a continuum from weak to strong, and a relationship between two firms can be placed anywhere on this matrix. This phenomenon is called coopetition.
References
Marrón PJ, Minder D (eds) (2006) Embedded WiSeNts consortium, Embedded WiSeNts research roadmap. Logos, Berlin
Marrón PJ, Karnouskos S, Minder D (eds) (2009) Research roadmap on cooperating objects. European Commission, ISBN: 978-92-79-12046-6. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. doi:10.2759/11566
Marrón PJ, Karnouskos S, Minder D, Ollero A (eds) (2011) The emerging domain of cooperating objects. Springer, Berlin. http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-3-642-16945-8
Watzlawick P, Beavin JH, Jackson DD (1967) Pragmatics of human communication. W. W. Norton, New York
Siciliano B, Khatib O (eds) (2008) Springer handbook of robotics. Springer, Berlin
Merriam-Webster (2011) Merriam-Webster thesaurus. http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/
Macmillian (2011) Macmillan Dictionary. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
Sioutis C, Tweedale J (2006) Agent cooperation and collaboration. In: Gabrys B, Howlett R, Jain L (eds) Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems. Lecture notes in computer science, vol 4252, Springer, Berlin. pp 464–471. doi:10.1007/11893004_60
Horning JJ, Randell B (1973) Process structuring. ACM Comput Surv 5:5–30. doi:10.1145/356612.356614
Kohn A (1992) No contest: the case against competition. Houghton Mifflin, New York
Roschelle J, Teasley SD (1995) The construction of shared knowledge in collaborative problem solving. In: O’Malley C (ed) Computer-supported collaborative learning. Springer, Berlin, pp 69–97
Ditkoff M, Moore T, Allen C, Pollard D (2005) The ideal collaborative team. http://www.ideachampions.com/downloads/collaborationresults.pdf
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Marrón, P.J., Minder, D., Karnouskos, S. (2012). Definition of Cooperating Objects. In: The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28469-4_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28469-4_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-28468-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-28469-4
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)