Abstract
Process Aware Information Systems (PAISs) are a useful form of software system; they are being found to be useful by an increasingly large population of diverse humans. The strength and the challenge of PAISs are within the collective endeavors domain where PAISs are used by groups of people to support communication, coordination, and collaboration. Even today, after years of research and development, collective endeavors PAISs are plagued with problems and pitfalls intertwined with their benefits. These problems are frequently elusive and complex due to the fact that “PAISs are first and foremost people systems.” This paper addresses some of the people issues and proposes a framework for research in this domain.
The authors, as the co-organizers of the PAIS2007 workshop, specially research into this topic for the workshop. Also the research was partly supported by the BEIT special fund of Kyonggi University.
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Ellis, C.A., Kim, K. (2007). Process Aware Information Systems: A Human Centered Perspective. In: Dong, G., Lin, X., Wang, W., Yang, Y., Yu, J.X. (eds) Advances in Data and Web Management. APWeb WAIM 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72524-4_8
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