Supporting the Evolution of Workflow Patterns for Virtual Communities

Authors:
Hans Weigand; Aldo de Moor;Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Virtual communities that make use of network information systems (NIS) have a need for specification support that agrees with their communal character. System specification changes must be acceptable to all members for a community to thrive. We concentrate on the specification of workflow-enabling communication tools rather than information tools that support a single user. In a previous paper, we have de-fined various levels of workflow specification, from speech acts to scenarios. Once patterns for these levels have been identified, they can be stored in a component library and be (re)-used effectively by communities to speed up their NIS development. To ensure the acceptability of changes in workflow patterns, we propose to apply an existing method for legitimate user-driven specification.