Studies On Scientific And Technological Cooperation Communities: Model And The Support System Prototype

With the rapid development of information technology,computer and networks are used more widely and deeply in the fields of science and technology(S&T),giving rise to the proliferation of online S&T cooperation.The human community intelligence which is formed around these cooperating behaviors drives the S&T development in our society.However,the researchers always draw the focus on the researches of individual behaviors,while the research of the collective actions in S&T communities is insufficient.At the same time,with more attention being placed on the computing technological support systems,the research of conceptual model of S&T cooperation is somehow overlooked.In order to resolve these problems and to foster more effective computer applications in supporting large-scale cooperation,key work of this thesis can be summarized in the following four parts:Firstly,according to the review of shared mental model theory in teamwork,and through research on online community,the thesis proposes and defines the concept of scientific and technological cooperation community(i.e.STCC),and presents the essential characteristics of STCC,followed by an elaborated analysis of STCC through some social phenomena.Secondly,the thesis describes the conceptual model of STCC.The similarity and dissimilarity between Swarm intelligence and human community intelligence are discussed. Based on the analysis of the traditional modes of interpersonal knowledge transfer,the conceptual community model of STCC is proposed,and the factors which affect the community of STCC are depicted from four aspects.Moreover,based on the Web2.0 technologies,the thesis constructs a community model of STCC from the logical aspect.In this part,Web2.0 is described briefly,and the essential characteristics and the supportive functions are discussed.Based on this,the two-tier logical structural model of community is proposed,and it is described from personal and corporative aspects.The functions which participant members play in a community are analyzed at last.Finally,the thesis proposes a primitive framework of STCC-support system based on Web2.0,and gives a particular depiction about the functional structure of the proposed STCC-support system.In the end of the thesis,the key codes of some functions have been listed,and some functions of the system have been implemented. The community of STCC has been defined as a human community in which knowledge workers intercommunicate with each other and create new knowledge using the Internet technology.This thesis mainly describes the community models of STCC at the conceptual and logical levels,and constructs the basic framework of computer-support system,which will be helpful for the development of such community.