Collaborative Modeling

Rittgen, Peter

doi:10.4018/jismd.2010070101

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“…They are used to diagrammatically describe work using notational elements that are tailored to the work aspects to be represented (Giaglis 2001;Wieringa 2001). Conceptual models have already been used in earlier research to support the development of a shared understanding about work processes (Vennix et al 1996;Rittgen 2010;Niehaves and Plattfaut 2011;Aleem et al 2012). Given the origins of conceptual modeling, most work in this area has been motivated from an information systems perspective (Curtis et al 1992), and aims at creating or configuring IT-based systems for operative work, i.e.…”

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Supporting the Collaborative Construction of a Shared Understanding About Work with a Guided Conceptual Modeling Technique

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2016

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The existence of a shared understanding about a collaborative work process among all involved actors is one prerequisite for its successful implementation. The development of a shared understanding is facilitated when the actors make explicit their individual views and create externalizations that can be used as subjects of discourse. Instruments supporting externalization and discourse about collaborative work need to provide adequate forms of representation and guide actors in implementing these reflection and alignment processes. Appropriate guidance can facilitate the construction of a shared understanding for actors not accustomed to such processes. This paper introduces a methodology that offers structural and procedural guidance by adopting diagrammatical conceptual modeling techniques. This methodology has been evaluated extensively in a multiple case study. A combination of interaction analysis of the modeling process and ex-post assessment of the actors' perceptions has been used to evaluate the adequacy of the proposed methodology with respect to the pursued objectives. The results confirm that the modeling methodology and the proposed guidance measures appropriately support the process of constructing a shared understanding about collaborative work processes.Keywords Multi-perspective articulation of work · Diagrammatical conceptual modeling of communication and work processes · Domain-expert-driven modeling · Bottom-up organizational development

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Supporting the Collaborative Construction of a Shared Understanding About Work with a Guided Conceptual Modeling Technique

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2016

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“…End-user involvement is a core feature of several software development methods (such as agile-based ones). The concept of community-driven development of a software product was introduced by Hess et al (2008) and other authors have studied this collaboration as part of the requirement elicitation (Mylopoulos et al, 1999), ontology development (Leenheer, 2009;Siorpaes, 2007) and modeling phases of the software (Hildenbrand et al, 2008;Lanubile et al, 2010;Whitehead, 2007;Rittgen, 2008), but neither of them focuses on the DSML language design process nor they present the collaboration as a process of discussion, voting and argumentation from the beginning to the end of the language development process. End-user participation is also the core of user-centered design (Norman and Draper, 1986), initially focused on the design of user interfaces but lately applied to other domains (e.g., agile methodologies (Hussain et al, 2009) or web development (Troyer and Leune, 1998)).…”

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Peer Review #2 of "Collaboro: a collaborative (meta) modeling tool (v0.1)"

2016

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Software development is becoming more and more collaborative, emphasizing the role of end-users in the development process to make sure the final product will satisfy the customer needs. This is specially relevant when developing Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are modeling languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts of the domain for which a DSML is developed, their participation in the DSML specification process is still rather limited nowadays. In this paper, we propose a more community-aware language development process by enabling the active participation of all community members (both developers and end-users) from the very beginning. Our proposal, called Collaboro, is based on a DSML itself enabling the representation of change proposals during the language design and the discussion (and trace back) of possible solutions, comments and decisions arisen during the collaboration. Collaboro also incorporates a metric-based recommender system to help community members to define high-quality notations for the DSMLs. We also show how Collaboro can be used at the model-level to facilitate the collaborative specification of software models. Tool support is avalable both as an Eclipse plug-in a web-based solution.

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“…While it supports the collaborative use of modelling languages, it does not support their collaborative construction. On the other hand, the COMA tool [17] allows collaborating in the definition of UML diagrams, however, it does not provide support for creating DSMLs and does not present the collaboration as a process of discussion, argumentation and voting.…”

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Engaging End-Users in the Collaborative Development of Domain-Specific Modelling Languages

Izquierdo

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López-Fernández

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription Abstract. Domain-Specific Modelling Languages (DSMLs) are highlevel languages specially designed to perform tasks in a particular domain. When developing DSMLs, the participation of end-users is normally limited to providing domain knowledge and testing the resulting language prototypes. Language developers, which are perhaps not domain experts, are therefore in control of the language development and evolution. This may cause misinterpretations which hamper the development process and the quality of the DSML. Thus, it would be beneficial to promote a more active participation of end-users in the development process of DSMLs. While current DSML workbenches are mono-user and designed for technical experts, we present a process and tool support for the example-driven, collaborative construction of DSMLs in order to engage end-users in the creation of their own languages.

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Collaborative Modeling

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

Supporting the Collaborative Construction of a Shared Understanding About Work with a Guided Conceptual Modeling Technique

Supporting the Collaborative Construction of a Shared Understanding About Work with a Guided Conceptual Modeling Technique

Peer Review #2 of "Collaboro: a collaborative (meta) modeling tool (v0.1)"

Engaging End-Users in the Collaborative Development of Domain-Specific Modelling Languages

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