Interactions, Goals and Rules in a Collaborative Modelling Session [chapter]

Denis Ssebuggwawo, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Erik Proper
2009 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing  
Collaborative modeling can enhance productivity and quality of modeling in system development and enterprise engineering projects by helping to construct agreement and a sense of model ownership among stakeholders/modelers. Most of these stakeholders have relatively low expertise in formal modeling; advanced modeler-oriented support for collaborative modeling is a possible remedy. As a basis for further development of such support (methods, tools), we have carried out a detailed exploratory
more » ... y of the interaction between modelers, involving diverse aspects of modeling: goal setting, modeling language concepts, planning, etc. Central in our approach is the study of how collaborative modelers negotiate, set, use, and deal with the various rules/goals governing interactive modeling sessions. We describe the conceptual framework and approach used for our analysis, and present findings from a case study which focused on the first phases of a session concerning basic Business Process Modeling. We also compare our findings to some existing work, to demonstrate the relevance of our approach.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-05352-8_6 fatcat:4yigb233xveu7erbdpzrzmkq24