to Adaptive Collaboration Scripting -- Combining Streaming Media and Collaborative Elements to Support Lifelong Learning -- ‘MULTIPLES’: A Challenging Learning Framework for the Generation of Multiple Perspectives within e-Collaboration Settings -- E-Learning at Work in the Knowledge Virtual Enterprise -- Communities of Practice Environment (CoPE): Democratic CSCW for Group Production and E-Learning -- Critical Thinking as a Framework for Structuring Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication within Learning Design-Based E-Learning Systems -- Constructing a Multi-agent System for Discovering the Meaning over Natural-Language Collaborative Conversations -- CoLPE: Support for Communities of Learning Practice by the Effective Embedding of Information and Knowledge about Group Activity -- Detecting and Solving Negative Situations in Real CSCL Experiences with a Role-Based Interaction Analysis Approach -- DyMRA: A Decentralized Resource Allocation Framework for Collaborative Learning Environments -- A Semantic Description Model for the Development and Evaluation of Grid-Based, Innovative, Ubiquous and Pervasive Collaborative Learning Scenarios.

Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications is a major research theme in CSCL and CSCW research community. It comprises a variety of research topics that focus on developing systems that are more powerful and flexible and also more adaptable to the learning process and thus provide better answers to the paradigmatic principles of on-line collaborative learning and work. The chapters collected in this book provide new insights, findings and approaches both on the analysis and the development of more powerful e-collaboration settings. Researchers will find in this book the latest trends in these research topics. On the other hand, academics will find practical insights on how to use conceptual and experimental approaches in their daily tasks. Finally, developers from CSCL community can be inspired and put in practice the proposed models and evaluate them for the specific purposes of their own work and context.