International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=344&year=2012&vol=2&issue=1 Inderscience Publishers Ltd en-uk International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering 1758-9797 1758-9800 © 2012 Inderscience Publishers Ltd editor@inderscience.com https://www.inderscience.com/images/files/coverImgs/ijode_scoverijode.jpg http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=344&year=2012&vol=2&issue=1 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45908 This paper gives an overview of the recent field of collaborative modelling. We first address the dimensions of group productivity, model quality and consensus. We then explore the factors on individual and team level that have significant impact on group productivity. We continue with an overview of the most relevant streams of collaborative modelling research, and conclude with a short outline of the papers in this special issue. Introduction
Peter Rittgen
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 1 - 18
This paper gives an overview of the recent field of collaborative modelling. We first address the dimensions of group productivity, model quality and consensus. We then explore the factors on individual and team level that have significant impact on group productivity. We continue with an overview of the most relevant streams of collaborative modelling research, and conclude with a short outline of the papers in this special issue.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045908 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 1 - 18 Peter Rittgen Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Reep 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium; University College of Borås, Allégatan 1, 50190 Borås, Sweden collaborative modelling participative modelling group modelling individual factors team factors group productivity model quality consensus. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 1 18 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45905 This paper concerns a specific approach to analysing and structuring operational situations in collaborative modelling. Collaborative modelling is viewed here as 'the goal-driven creation and shaping of models that are based on the principles of rational description and reasoning'. Our long term goal is to use this analysis as a basis for improvement of collaborative modelling and the development of dedicated interactive support environments. We focus on a specific, established flavour of collaborative modelling called group model building (GMB), rooted in system dynamics. GMB is the collaborative modelling of causal relations and feedback loops, and aims for the understanding of the complex influences among system variables in some system. We discuss our theoretical approach to the systematic analysis and framing of collaborative modelling as dialogue games. We then present an evaluated prototype of a dialogue game for analysing GMB: an operational framing of constrained and guided GMB conversations. A dialogue game for analysing group model building: framing collaborative modelling and its facilitation
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers; Etëinne Rouwette
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 19 - 40
This paper concerns a specific approach to analysing and structuring operational situations in collaborative modelling. Collaborative modelling is viewed here as 'the goal-driven creation and shaping of models that are based on the principles of rational description and reasoning'. Our long term goal is to use this analysis as a basis for improvement of collaborative modelling and the development of dedicated interactive support environments. We focus on a specific, established flavour of collaborative modelling called group model building (GMB), rooted in system dynamics. GMB is the collaborative modelling of causal relations and feedback loops, and aims for the understanding of the complex influences among system variables in some system. We discuss our theoretical approach to the systematic analysis and framing of collaborative modelling as dialogue games. We then present an evaluated prototype of a dialogue game for analysing GMB: an operational framing of constrained and guided GMB conversations.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045905 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 19 - 40 Stijn Hoppenbrouwers; Etëinne Rouwette Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ' Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands dialogue games group model building collaborative modelling system dynamics modelling tools. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 19 40 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45904 Large crises management, affecting CIs needs multidisciplinary knowledge including technical, economical, social, political, legal and managerial knowledge. Being these crises international a huge variety of agents is involved in their response. This situation concludes in a set of stakeholders who only have fragmented knowledge. In the presence of dispersed and incomplete knowledge, and of fragmented and disrupted crisis management, the collaborative approach group model building (GMB), where modelling experts unify fragmented, tacit knowledge from domain experts, is a valuable option. However, GMB has been little used in CIP. We have done so in the context a European project on crisis management of large-scale power cut crises. Particulars in CIP – variety of time horizons, different national perspectives, and challenges to create an international approach, among others – require adaptations in the GMB approach. This paper describes such adaptations and provides insights for better future collaborative modelling. Group model building: a collaborative modelling methodology applied to critical infrastructure protection
Josune Hernantes; Leire Labaka; Ana Laugé; Jose María Sarriegi; Jose Julio Gonzalez
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 41 - 60
Large crises management, affecting CIs needs multidisciplinary knowledge including technical, economical, social, political, legal and managerial knowledge. Being these crises international a huge variety of agents is involved in their response. This situation concludes in a set of stakeholders who only have fragmented knowledge. In the presence of dispersed and incomplete knowledge, and of fragmented and disrupted crisis management, the collaborative approach group model building (GMB), where modelling experts unify fragmented, tacit knowledge from domain experts, is a valuable option. However, GMB has been little used in CIP. We have done so in the context a European project on crisis management of large-scale power cut crises. Particulars in CIP – variety of time horizons, different national perspectives, and challenges to create an international approach, among others – require adaptations in the GMB approach. This paper describes such adaptations and provides insights for better future collaborative modelling.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045904 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 41 - 60 Josune Hernantes; Leire Labaka; Ana Laugé; Jose María Sarriegi; Jose Julio Gonzalez TECNUN – University of Navarra, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, N° 13, 20.018, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain. ' TECNUN – University of Navarra, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, N° 13, 20.018, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain. ' TECNUN – University of Navarra, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, N° 13, 20.018, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain. ' TECNUN – University of Navarra, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, N° 13, 20.018, Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain. ' Faculty of Engineering and Science, Institute for ICT, University of Agder, Serviceboks 509, NO-4898 GRIMSTAD, Norway collaborative modelling group model building simulation critical infrastructures infrastructure protection power cuts crisis management fragmented knowledge system dynamics tacit knowledge. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 41 60 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45903 Enterprise modelling helps improving individual and organisational self-awareness by allowing sharing knowledge about the organisation among its human actors through graphical representations. In order to achieve this goal, enterprise models must not only offer a trustworthy and reliable representation of different enterprise concerns, but such representation must be up-to-date. The work presented in this paper defines a collaborative 'as-is' business process model updating process that uses the annotation mechanism to create interaction contexts and enable business actors to communicate their knowledge about organisational processes turning it explicit and to discuss existing process representations in order to update them. The proposed approach allows actors to act as active updaters and modellers of the as-is business process model by comparing modelled with actually executed activities. The benefits of this approach have been gathered through several case studies in real organisational environment where a collaborative enterprise modelling tool was deployed to support the defined process. Collaborative maintenance of business process models
Nuno Castela; Paulo Dias; Marielba Zacarias; José M. Tribolet
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 61 - 84
Enterprise modelling helps improving individual and organisational self-awareness by allowing sharing knowledge about the organisation among its human actors through graphical representations. In order to achieve this goal, enterprise models must not only offer a trustworthy and reliable representation of different enterprise concerns, but such representation must be up-to-date. The work presented in this paper defines a collaborative 'as-is' business process model updating process that uses the annotation mechanism to create interaction contexts and enable business actors to communicate their knowledge about organisational processes turning it explicit and to discuss existing process representations in order to update them. The proposed approach allows actors to act as active updaters and modellers of the as-is business process model by comparing modelled with actually executed activities. The benefits of this approach have been gathered through several case studies in real organisational environment where a collaborative enterprise modelling tool was deployed to support the defined process.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045903 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 61 - 84 Nuno Castela; Paulo Dias; Marielba Zacarias; José M. Tribolet Center for Organizational Design and Engineering, INESC INOVAÇÃO, Rua Alves Redol, n°9, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal; Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. Empresário, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal. ' Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. Empresário, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal. ' Center for Organizational Design and Engineering, INESC INOVAÇÃO, Rua Alves Redol, n°9, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal; Research Center for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal. ' Center for Organizational Design and Engineering, INESC INOVAÇÃO, Rua Alves Redol, n°9, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal; Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Campus Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal business process modelling as-is business process models model updating collaborative maintenance business process maintenance enterprise modelling organisational knowledge. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 61 84 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45907 Logistics processes, where RFID technologies are applied to improve process efficiency and flexible organisation of collaboration is required in the foreground, pose challenges to process modelling, analysis and design in business process management. To meet these challenges, we propose in this paper an integrated approach which bundles XSLT nets, a novel variant of high-level Petri nets to model RFID-based logistics processes and to enable their automatic execution, as well as social networking coordinated by community processes to support the interconnection and web-based collaboration of logistics partners. The utility of the approach is demonstrated in two modelling use cases. We also present a general architecture framework of process-oriented social information systems. Modelling and facilitating RFID-based collaborative logistics processes
Yu Li; Andreas Oberweis; Huayu Zhang
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 85 - 105
Logistics processes, where RFID technologies are applied to improve process efficiency and flexible organisation of collaboration is required in the foreground, pose challenges to process modelling, analysis and design in business process management. To meet these challenges, we propose in this paper an integrated approach which bundles XSLT nets, a novel variant of high-level Petri nets to model RFID-based logistics processes and to enable their automatic execution, as well as social networking coordinated by community processes to support the interconnection and web-based collaboration of logistics partners. The utility of the approach is demonstrated in two modelling use cases. We also present a general architecture framework of process-oriented social information systems.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045907 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 85 - 105 Yu Li; Andreas Oberweis; Huayu Zhang Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. ' Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. ' Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany distribution logistics radio frequency identification RFID social networks XSLT nets community processes order processing physical markup language PML XML/ EDIFACT collaborative logistics Petri nets business process modelling business process design business process management web-based collaboration. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 85 105 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=45906 We describe an experiment in which we test how the quality of collaboratively built IDEF0 and UML models is influenced by the collaboration process. Two collaborative modelling approaches were compared: a 'free-form' approach and an approach that singles out the concept elicitation phase by means of a specific 'generation' pattern. An error classification framework was used to compare the quality of the resulting models. We found that the semantic quality of UML models can be significantly improved by an explicitly separated generation task. Improving the quality of business process models through separation of generation tasks in collaborative modelling
Michiel Renger; Job Honig
International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 106 - 126
We describe an experiment in which we test how the quality of collaboratively built IDEF0 and UML models is influenced by the collaboration process. Two collaborative modelling approaches were compared: a 'free-form' approach and an approach that singles out the concept elicitation phase by means of a specific 'generation' pattern. An error classification framework was used to compare the quality of the resulting models. We found that the semantic quality of UML models can be significantly improved by an explicitly separated generation task.

]]> 10.1504/IJODE.2012.045906 International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012) pp. 106 - 126 Michiel Renger; Job Honig Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL, The Netherlands. ' Section Systems Engineering, Technische Universiteit Delft, P.O. Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, NL, The Netherlands business process modelling collaborative modelling collaboration engineering model quality IDEF0 UML models error classification semantic quality. 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00 2 1 106 126 2012-03-19T23:20:50-05:00