Active coordination of distributed human planners
Karen L. Myers, Peter A. Jarvis, Thomas J. Lee · 2002
Effective coordination of distributed human planners re-quires timely communication of relevant information to ensure the overall coherence of activities and the com-patibility of assumptions. This paper presents a frame-work called CODA that provides targeted informa-tion dissemination among distributed human planners as a way of improving coordination. Within CODA, each planner declares interest in different types of plan change that could impact his or her local plan devel-opment. As individuals develop plans using a plan authoring tool, their activities are monitored; changes that match declared interests trigger automatic notifica-tion of appropriate planners. In this way, distributed planners can receive focused, real-time updates of plan changes that are relevant to their local planning efforts.