Coordination Strategies: Scope of these pages

• Users geographically dispersed. We assume that the users of the agent(s) are dispersed geographically. This means that the users are unlikely to be in the same room or even the same building; that can have important ramifications into the design of the coordination strategy.
• Internet-based. Both the users and the agent(s) are assumed to be based on the Internet. This does not mean that we require that there be a full-duplex, real-time communications channel between them, but it makes it possible. (Most such applications will approximate such a connection, but not all.)
• Agent-based. This implies that users have an ability to personalize the operation of the system to their own tastes or needs; that it may or may not present an anthropomorphic interface; that it may or may not take autonomous action on a given user's behalf; and so forth. Thus, the network infrastructure itself does not count; neither does the Web.
• Large scope. There might be anywhere from hundreds to millions of users.

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