Authors:
Eldar Sultanow
and
Edzard Weber
Affiliation:
Business Information Systems and Electronic Government, University of Potsdam, Germany
Keyword(s):
Distributed development, Collaboration, Visualization, Semantic networks, Web3D.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Internet Technology
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
System Integration
;
Tele-Work and Collaboration
;
Web Geographical Information Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Geographically distributed development has consistently had to deal with the challenge of intense awareness extensively more than locally concentrated development. Awareness marks the state of being informed incorporated with an understanding of project-related activities, states or relationships of each individual employee within a given group or as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary in order to distribute and locate information together with experts (as well as their availability etc.), awareness becomes a concurrent process which amplifies the exigency of easy routes for staff to be able to access this information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and problem-oriented way. The appropriate visualization and navigation of this information is a requirement for ensuring that staff and project managers can orientate themselves most efficiently. This paper develops a model for visualizing the collaboration in development projects using sema
ntic networks and Web3D.
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