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Understanding and supporting collaboration is a major concern in any collective endeavor. In software engineering, planning collaboration is difficult and often occurs rather ad-hoc. However, many proposals for the description and support of collaboration assume necessary information is readily available and already integrated in process models. We believe practitioners should be given the ability to represent their evolving understanding about collaboration and should be supported by tools using such representation. We developed an extension to the Software & System Process Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM), which introduces concepts needed to represent precise and dynamic ad-hoc collaboration setups. We also describe tool support and present a proof-of-concept based on a fictitious but realistic application example.
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Kedji, K.A., Coulette, B., Lbath, R., Nassar, M. (2012). Modeling Ad-Hoc Collaboration for Automated Process Support. In: Biffl, S., Winkler, D., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Process Automation in Software Development. SWQD 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27213-4_14
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