A Framework to Collaborative and Incremental Development of Distributed Information Systems

  • Authors:

  • Mutaleci Miranda;Geraldo Xexeo;Jano Moreira Souza

  • Affiliations:

  • Seção de Engenharia de Computação, Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil and Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação (COPPE), Universidade Federal do Rio de ...;Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação (COPPE), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Departamento de Ciência da Computação (IM), Universidade Federa ...;Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação (COPPE), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Departamento de Ciência da Computação (IM), Universidade Federa ...

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this work, we approach the problem of developing corporate information systems in complex organizations dispersed across large geographical regions. Under these circumstances, management of differences among organizational unit requirements and implementation of new requirements over time may be cumbersome. We present a proposal to handle this problem by combining the use of semi-structured documents as data model, the partitioning of system code in several loosely coupled agents and the use of ontologies to conciliate differences in organizational unit vocabularies. We also describe an implementation of the proposal based on our Coppeer agent platform.