Temporal Variation of Collaboration in a Collaborative Environment

Abstract

In recent years, collaborative environments play a significant role in collaboration work. The keys element of these environments is the process of collaboration. The calculation of the collaboration does not depend on the current collaboration but also on the past-time collaboration value. The value of collaboration is affected by time-invariant factors, as well as time. The time factor is a crucial element in determining the value of collaboration. This chapter discusses the effect of time on collaboration value, which influences the variation over time of the level of reliability of a collaborative environment. The proposal is based on the ability to measure the temporal variation of the reliability of a collaborative environment. Existing collaborative environments do not take this measurement time into account to determine the level of reliability of the collaboration. The simulations show that the approach offers more flexibility in interpreting the decay of collaboration over time.