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Modifying CSCW Environments Dynamically for Supporting Virtual Enterprises Yahiko Kambayashi and Kaoru Katayama Mukesh Mohania Department of Social Informatics Advanced Computing Research Centre Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University School of Computer and Information Science Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan University of South Australia, Australia fyahiko, kaorug@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp mohania@cis.unisa.edu.au Abstract use virtual organization for real production, utilisation of database technology is important as it is used in the cur- In Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) envi- rent operational systems. Techniques developed for tradi- ronments data and operations can be shared by users and/or tional databases can be used for such areas, like security, they can have their own defined data and operations which privacy, back-up, transactions etc. We have been develop- may not be shared by other users. The notion of views in ing new functions for databases for new advanced applica- (object-oriented) database systems can be applied in CSCW tions [4, 5, 20, 11]. In this paper we discuss a new con- for realizing such environments. In this paper we define two cept, called environments that can be used for developing kinds of environments, namely, local and global, by extend- advanced applications for cooperative work. Indeed, envi- ing the deputy object model. The local environment is a per- ronments in CSCW are us