A Meta-Model for Cooperation Systems

Nils Jeners (1) , Wolfgang Prinz (2) , Sebastian Franken (1)

1 RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
2 Fraunhofer FIT - Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

Today’s enterprise information and cooperation systems are numerous and diverse. Users have problems of information overload, task interruption and media discontinuity. A unification approach of existing systems would be supportive to overcome these issues by reducing the variety and thereby the complexity. A process of unification starts with the comprehension of existing systems belonging to the virtual environment, by modeling them. The second step is the unification on the model layer followed by the last step, the design of the user interface. This paper will present the first step, a meta-model for cooperation systems, which applies concepts used in professional groupware systems as well as social media platforms. Major elements and concepts of cooperation systems will be identified to provide a basis for the unification of the virtual environment.

Mots clés: cooperation system; meta-model; conceptual model; unification

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Nils Jeners, Wolfgang Prinz, Sebastian Franken. A Meta-Model for Cooperation Systems. 14th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, (PROVE), Sep 2013, Dresden, Germany. pp.239-246, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-40543-3_26⟩. ⟨hal-01463214⟩