1-Introduction.- 1.1 Coordination in practice.- 1.2 Computers.- 1.3 Social machines.- 2-Preparations.- 2.1 Technical languages.- 2.2 Diagrammatic languages.- 2.3 Units.- 2.4 Units, complex units, and the Theory.- 2.5 Units and related theories.- 3-Actions, Performers.(Theory).- 3.1 Actions, performances, performers.- 3.2 Interests.- 3.3 Units for the management of failure.- 3.4 Why machines do not perform actions.- 3.5 Summary and forward pointers.- 4-Actions, Effects (Theory).- 4.1 Things (bodies), and actions.- 4.2 Types of effects.- 4.3 More on states and state changes.- 4.4 Action, solo action, and interaction.- 4.5 A brief overview of Chapters 3 and 4.- 4.6 On the vagueness of boundaries.- 5-The Pulsar (Vision).- 5.1 Getting organized activity support in focus.- 5.2 Pulsar generalities.- 5.3 Electronic meetings.- 5.4 Document production.- 5.5 Software development.- 5.6 Pulsar complexes, etc.- 5.7 The Theory so far as related to the Pulsar.- 6-Plan and Diplan (Theory).- 6.1 Plan generalities.- 6.2 Scenarios, stories, and multiplicities.- 6.3 Plans and their scenarios.- 6.4 More on plans, their scenarios, and cuts.- 6.5 The Pulsar revisited.- 7-IGO (Vision).- 7.1 Two axes of coordination.- 7.2 Material vs. activity organization.- 7.3 From a standard operating system to Igo.- 7.4 Igo and storage.- 8-Information (theory).- 8.1 Generalities.- 8.2 Preliminaries.- 8.3 Decision.- 8.4 Timing and information.- 8.5 Stepping back from the details.- 8.6 Information flow in state machines.- 9-Stores (vision).- 9.1 Generalities.- 9.2 Stores and computers.- 9.3 Databases and sharing.- 9.4 Some (surprising) relationships to the Theory.- 10-The Vision as a Whole.- 10.1 From a standard operating system to Igo.- 10.2 Centropolies and Igos: a new e-world.- 10.3World-wide coordination.- 11-The Theory as a Whole.- 11.1 The Theory and science in general.- 11.2 Pure vs. applied.- 11.3 "Science"about human behavior.- 11.4 "Pre-mathematical"?.- 11.5 State and prospects.- APPENDIX A: Information, and state machine structure.- APPENDIX B: Petri nets, and related Diplan exercises.- Cumulative bibliography.- Analytical index.
