System Modeling for Systematic Development of Groupware Applications.
Manuel Noguera, Miguel Á. Conde, José Luis García Garrido, María Visitación Hurtado, María Luisa Rodríguez · 2006
Abstract — Groupware systems allow users to be part of a shared environment in order to carry out groupwork. Members of a group belong to organizations in which each fulfills general and specific enterprise objectives. This paper presents a modeling proposal specially devised for the study of CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) systems and the subsequent development of groupware applications. This research work focuses on two specific models for the proposal: a conceptual domain model formalized through a domain ontology, and a system model built using a UML-based notation. The second stems from the first and each provides a Computation Independent View (CIV) with different objectives. Respectively, they allow a common vocabulary for knowledge sharing to be established, and organization functional requirements to be specified, particularly those concerning communication, coordination and collaboration.