Model-driven development of interactive groupware systems: Integration into the software development process

• The design of interactive groupware systems is a complex and multidisciplinary task.
• Different stakeholders and viewpoints should be supported.
• We propose to integrate CIAM (for collaboration and interaction modeling) and OpenUp (for functionality modeling).
• We provide a theoretical and computational solution to this necessity.
• With this approach all modeling viewpoints and stakeholders can be gathered together using a unique environment.

Modeling interactive groupware systems is a complex and multi-disciplinary task. It is necessary to provide designers and engineers with a set of methods, notations and tools to specify the different aspects to consider when designing this type of systems. In this work we present a methodological framework based on the integration of several notations and processes for modeling some of these aspects, in particular: interaction, collaboration and functionality. The objective of this work is to provide a more complete support to the design of groupware systems, considering different viewpoints and modeling perspectives of the several stakeholders involved in the development of such applications.