A Proposal of Interaction Modelling Formalisms in Virtual Collaborative Work Spaces

Abstract—The virtual collaborative workspaces allow integration of work groups in which members are not physically contiguous. There is a vast literature related to modeling of software architectures that support this type of environment. However, the existing formalisms model the interaction between actors and between system and system components. In this context, this paper proposes modeling artifacts (which supplement the existing) to describe: domain vocabulary through table category-concept-definition; interactions among actors through interaction cases, interaction group diagrams, interaction procedures and sequence diagram of group dynamics; and development by group of conceptual artifacts through diagram of development of conceptual objects. we present a proof of concept to illustrate the proposal.

Index Terms—Virtual spaces, collaborative work, conceptual modeling formalisms.

The authors are with the Research and Development Lab in Working Virtual Spaces within Information Systems Research Group, National University of Lanus. Argentina (e-mail: darodriguez@unla.edu.ar, rgarcia@unla.edu.ar).

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Cite: Dario Rodriguez and Ramon Garcia-Martinez, "A Proposal of Interaction Modelling Formalisms in Virtual Collaborative Work Spaces," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 76-80, 2014.