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Communicating Design Knowledge with Groupware Technology Patterns

The Case of Shared Object Management

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Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use (CRIWG 2004)

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Many groupware frameworks offer programming abstractions to relieve developers from recurring issues during groupware development. However, some properties of the frameworks complicate their usage. We identify these properties and argue that the framework approach alone is not sufficient for supporting groupware developers. Groupware development support should instead educate developers on how to design and implement groupware applications and foster the reuse of proven solutions. We propose pattern languages as an educational and communicative vehicle for reaching this goal. To assist developers in the development process of groupware applications, we provide a pattern language that offers proven solutions for recurring issues in the area of shared object management and allow developers to reuse them.

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  1. Department for Computer Science, University of Hagen, 58084, Hagen, Germany

    Stephan Lukosch & Till Schümmer

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  1. Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Information Science & Technology, 1110 South 67th Street, 68182, Omaha, NE, USA

    Gert-Jan de Vreede

  2. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile

    Luis A. Guerrero

  3. Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica

    Gabriela Marín Raventós

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Lukosch, S., Schümmer, T. (2004). Communicating Design Knowledge with Groupware Technology Patterns. In: de Vreede, GJ., Guerrero, L.A., Marín Raventós, G. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30112-7_19

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