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An architecture to support the design and evaluation of software platforms for partially virtual communities
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Computing and Informatics Volumen: 34 Número: 3 Páginas: 521-558 (2015)
1335-9150
Autor
Gutiérrez, Francisco J.
Ochoa Delorenzi, Sergio
Baloian Tataryan, Nelson
Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo
Loyola, Luis
Institución
Resumen
Several researchers have identified the design of collaborative systems as a particularly challenging
task, because it has to consider services that are not easily identifiable by software designers. The
systems that support the activities of partially virtual communities (PVC) are not an exception.
Typically, designers of PVC supporting systems are able to identify services that have a visual
representation on the user interface, but they usually overlook those that run in the system backend.
In an attempt to help designers to consider these two types of services, this article proposes a
software architecture that can be used for both, designing new PVC supporting systems and
evaluating existing ones. The architecture was used in three case studies as a design guideline
during the development of PVC supporting platforms, and also as an instrument to evaluate three
commercial systems. Although the obtained results are still preliminary, they indicate that the
architecture is able to accomplish both roles.