Building Workflow For Collaboration Task Using Muti-Context Map

  • Authors:

  • Satoshi Kumagai;Akiko Hasegawa;Ryo Kawabata;Kiyoshi Itoh

  • Affiliations:

  • Research and Development Headquarters Yamatake Corporation., Kanagawa, Japan;Faculty of Science and Technology Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan;Faculty of Science and Technology Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan;Faculty of Science and Technology Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Collaboration task is a process which involves diversified individual and/ or organizations. Naturally, each participant in the process has different roles or perspectives in the process, while sharing a common goal. Diversity of those roles or perspectives provides various contexts in the collaboration task. In other words, a collaboration task can be regarded as a collection of contexts. Each contexts switches one after another among the participants according to the differences of their perspectives. Specifying workflow which directs efforts of each participant is effective way to leverage their complementary skills and resources. In order to facilitate building the workflow, Multi-Context Map (MCM) and its construction process are presented. MCM can specify both information and material flows of the workflow. The construction process enables an incremental building of workflow.