Object Lens: a "spreadsheet" for cooperative work

摘要: Object Lens allows unsophisticated computer users to create their own cooperative work applications using a set of simple, but powerful, building blocks. By defining and modifying templates for various semistructured objects, can represent information about people, tasks, products, messages, many other kinds in form that be processed intelligently by both people computers. collecting these objects customizable folders, displays which summarize selected from the table or tree formats. Finally, creating semiautonomous agents, specify rules automatically processing this different ways at times.The combination primitives provides single consistent interface integrates facilities object-oriented databases, hypertext, electronic messaging, rule-based intelligent agents. To illustrate power combined approach, we describe several simple examples (such as task tracking, message routing, database retrieval) have developed framework.