Article in Proceedings INPROC-2015-53

BibliographySungur, C. Timurhan; Dorn, Christoph; Dustdar, Schahram; Leymann, Frank: Transforming Collaboration Structures into Deployable Informal Processes.
In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, ICWE 2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 23-26, 2015..
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); 9114, pp. 231-250, english.
Springer International Publishing, June 2015.
ISBN: 10.1007/978-3-319-19890-3_16.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.2 (Software Engineering Design Tools and Techniques)
H.4.1 (Office Automation)
KeywordsInformal process essentials; Human architecture description language; Wiki; Collaboration configuration; Transformation
Abstract

Traditional workflow and activity-centric coordination offers limited process support to human collaborators when unanticipated situations predom- inate. Under such circumstances, informal processes focus on provisioning relevant resources for achieving collaboration goals. Resources include interaction mechanisms such as shared artifact, social networks, and publish/subscribe information dissemination as complex situations typically demand the close collaboration among multiple human process participants. Currently, however, there exists a gap between (i) selecting and configuring suitable interaction mechanisms (collaboration level) and (ii) deploying the respective collaboration platforms (IT level). In this paper, we present an approach and techniques for transforming collaboration structures into automatically deployable informal processes. We demonstrate how our tools support the specification of desirable collaboration capabilities subsequently deployed to multiple MediaWiki instances.

Contactsungur@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)GSaME
Smart Society Project (Grant No. 600854)
Entry dateOctober 26, 2015
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