E-CARGO surpasses the object model and the agent model in several ways:
Focus on collaboration: E-CARGO is specifically designed to study collaboration and teamwork. It provides a framework for investigating the nature of collaboration, which traditional CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), and game theory research ignore.
Dynamic, iterative, and adaptive: E-CARGO considers collaboration as a dynamic, iterative, and adaptive process, which allows for the modeling, formalization, analysis, and solution of complex problems that could only be solved informally before.
High-level framework: E-CARGO provides a high-level framework for collaboration, a composition structure for a complex system, and makes a collaboration system analyzable and designable.
Role-based: E-CARGO emphasizes the role of agents within a system and makes roles the spirits of a system, including collaboration. This makes roles more easily specified, mastered, and applied.
Interdisciplinary: E-CARGO is interdisciplinary research that provides a highly abstract vision for the collective behaviors of people and societies. It also leads the investigation of team intelligence other than AI concentrating on individual intelligence.
Computational decision-making: E-CARGO makes computational decision-making in collaboration a reality through its symbols, models, constraints, and optimization objectives.
Overall, E-CARGO provides a comprehensive framework for investigating complex systems, with a specific focus on collaboration and teamwork, making it a powerful tool for studying collaboration and teamwork in various fields.