Title
A model-based framework to automate the analysis of users' activity in collaborative systems
Abstract
The automated analysis of users' activity in collaborative systems aims at characterizing the collective process established between the participants and contributing to improving the deficiencies that occur during the users' activity and that are identified by means of this characterisation. This type of analysis, however, requires the completion of complex and costly software development tasks such as capturing information about the actions carried out by the users, calculating low and high level variables to characterize the users' work and behaviour and, finally, defining different kinds of interventions to improve the users' experience solving this way all of those problems that have been detected. To enable the automation of these tasks, reducing the required development effort, we propose a framework that allows software developers to specify the processes of analysis of the activity supported by a collaborative system by means of visual languages in a model-based approach and to automate the analysis accordingly. This framework is used in two case studies. Firstly, the framework is applied for the collaboration analysis in a social network system. Secondly, the collaborative programming activity supported by the COLLECE system is analysed using the framework, and the impact of using the framework is then evaluated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.jnca.2011.01.005
J. Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
model-based framework,costly software development task,required development effort,case study,collaborative system,software developer,automated analysis,collaborative programming activity,COLLECE system,social network system,Collaboration analysis,Collaborative systems,collaboration analysis
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Duque18611.51
Crescencio Bravo236635.31
Manuel Ortega333034.87