Track:
Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack:
Collaborative Modeling
Modeling is a basic skill and practice in various disciplines. Modeling
requires complex analytical skills. Various modeling methods and
techniques are used in business and research, and they are often used as a
vehicle for communication. However, often models are made by individuals.
Collaborative modeling is challenging because it requires groups to create
a very sophisticated level of shared understanding. Collaborative modeling
has been practiced in various domains such as business process modeling,
system dynamics, problem structuring methods, software engineering,
gaming, simulation, etc. In each of disciplines it is vital that groups
create joint models to achieve shared understanding of the concepts they
design. This minitrack invites experiences and research focused on
collaborative approaches to modeling.
This minitrack
provides an international platform on which the following issues can be
discussed:
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Modeling
languages, facilitation methods, techniques, and patterns, to support (a)synchronous
collaborative or group modeling for co-located and distributed people,
teams, or groups.
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The design,
application, and evaluation of collaborative modeling technologies.
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Experiences and
strategies for deployment of collaborative modeling in organizations.
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Theoretical
foundations and practical approaches to collaborative modeling.
Thus, papers are
welcome that contain original ideas, approaches and methods for
collaborative modeling. There are no preferred methodological stances for
this minitrack: this minitrack is open to both qualitative and
quantitative research, to research from a positivist, interpretivist, or
critical perspective, to studies from the lab, from the field, or
developmental in nature.
Themes and topics of relevance to this minitrack include, but are not
limited to (related topics not listed are especially welcome):
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Methods and
Languages for Collaborative Modeling
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Specific modeling
languages for collaborative modeling
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Modeling methods
that can be used in a collaborative fashion
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Methods and
patterns to facilitate collaborative modeling
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Tool and
Technology Support for Collaborative Modeling
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Technology that
supports collaborative modeling
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Experiences with
collaborative modeling tools
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Conceptual design
of new collaborative modeling tools
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Experience with
Collaborative modeling
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Experiences with
collaborative modeling in organizations
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Strategies for the
implementation of collaborative modeling
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Collaborative
modeling in education
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Research and
conceptual theories for collaborative modeling
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Research
instruments and frameworks for collaborative modeling
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Theories related
to outcomes and antecedents in collaborative modeling
Minitrack
Co-Chairs:
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten (Primary Contact)
Delft University of Technology
Department of Systems Engineering
Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-152783567 fax: +31-152783429
E-mail: g.l.kolfschoten@tudelft.nl
Etiënne
Rouwette
Radboud University Nijmegen
Research Methodology and Knowledge Management
Postbus 9108, 6500 HK Nijmegen
Phone:+31(24) 3611468
Fax: +31(24) 3611933
E-mail: E.Rouwette@fm.ru.nl
Please submit abstracts and/or
any questions to Aaron Read,
Collaborative Modeling Minitrack Program Coordinator:
University of Nebraska Omaha
Center for Collaboration Science
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha NE 68182
Phone: 402-206-4327
Email: aread@mail.unomaha.edu
