The organizing principle for the following research agenda is a four-level planning model that considers separately, but in an integrated manner, the research issues that should be investigated in order to supply the answers we will need in order to:
Make sensible policy decisions regarding CMC.
Make effective strategic planning decisions.
Make tactical decisions within specific CMC projects.
Make good logistic decisions in relation to selection and use of the hardware and software that will be the tools of future CMC systems.