Collaborative support embedded in information system through automatic code generation

Abstract

There is no discussion on how collaborative tools can enhance the way we perform our everyday tasks. By interacting with each other we can find out the answers to our questions and improve the quality of our decisions. Moreover, the tools available make it very easy to spread our issues and gather results and feedback online within a very short response time.When it comes to traditional information systems the wisdom of the crowds' principle is neglected. The vast majority of information systems deployed provides no collaborative tool aimed at supporting users to perform their tasks. The community of users of any information system is a powerful resource of tacit knowledge that must be exploited. The MDArte framework has been used to develop information systems through the Model Driven Architecture approach, automating the generation from models reaching around 80% of the application code. This paper presents the Collaborative MDArte initiative which goes further in the automatic generation embedding collaborative tools into generated information systems with no additional efforts.