In CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), managing the group's organizational structure allows to control how the group members communicate, collaborate, and coordinate, to achieve a common goal, in order to benefit an organization or a community. Consequently, establishing an appropriate model of this structure's management is very important, as it can be used as a guide for implementing these kinds of systems. This modeling must be flexible enough, so that it can conform itself to changes within the group and to adjust to the different working styles of several groups, as well as to formally support a base of knowledge; helping to eradicate any ambiguity or redundancy. Therefore, this modeling must formally provide a knowledge representation in order to specify the elements and to control the set of orderly steps on an organizational structure. Thus, a workflow ontology to control such a structure is proposed in this paper. Since, the workflow manages and controls the process, via a set of steps ordered and executed by different organization entities, whereas the ontology specifies the domain of knowledge through concepts, relations, axioms, and instances in a formal, explicit, way. A case of study, to demonstrate the knowledge management of the group's organizational structure, through workflow ontology is shown.
The workflow model represents the set of steps performed by different entities and their execution ordering to control and manage the carried out process on organization. In which, the structure organizational determines the division of labor in order to persons perform the organization process in an appropriated manner. In collaborative applications, this structure determines how the interaction among users, as well as between the users and the application, are carried out. For this reason, a workflow to manage the group organizational structure will be ideal. Although, workflow lacks the expressive power to represent the domain knowledge and the sequence of operations. An ontology describes the knowledge domain through concepts, relations, axioms and instances, but ontology does not specify how these entities should be used and combined. Therefore, in this paper a workflow ontology to control the group organizational structure is proposed. A case study is presented to show the use of knowledge-based workflow ontology for this structure.
This paper presents a software architecture-based methodological approach to develop collaborative applications. Today, the use of collaborative applications has spread to various domains, as they facilitate communication, collaboration, and coordination between several users. These applications require mechanisms to support and model communication activities and processing of information, vital in the dynamic nature to the group. In this paper, the use of a software architecture is recommended to develop collaborative applications. This architecture for specifying the structure and behavior through the application, providing a shared meeting space to simplify and agile the group work. Thus, it is possible to support dynamic group structure. In addition, specification tables are proposed to simplify the development of this kind of applications; since the developers to complete the table are analyzing the necessary elements required to build an application, so performing requirements analysis, design, and displayed as would the final application. A case study to validate the software architecture is proposed.
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