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Integrated Modeling and Evolution of Social Software

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Socioinformatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT

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Social networks, public and private media, administrative and business processes are based on a multitude of interconnected information systems. These growing software infrastructures, called social software in the following, get more and more entangled with everyday life and the processes of the society. Social software and society together form complex sociotechnical systems. In this paper, we describe how such sociotechnical systems can be modeled in a way that integrates social and software processes. The models can be reflective in the sense that they include the processes for their own modification. This way, system evolution can be expressed and studied as part of the model.

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Notes

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    E.g. compared to [18].

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    Except maybe for copyright regulations.

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    For better readability, we use different line formats for associations and emphasize the directions of the associations by arrowheads.

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    Such as the form of study plans.

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    Different from [2], we relate the stakeholders to an STSS and not to a product.

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    We use the terms “process model” and “process description” synonymously.

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    Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter & Mathias Weber

  2. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Barbara Paech

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  1. Department of Computer Science, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Katharina Zweig

  2. Faculty Social Sciences, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Wolfgang Neuser

  3. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Volkmar Pipek

  4. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Markus Rohde

  5. Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ingo Scholtes

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Poetzsch-Heffter, A., Paech, B., Weber, M. (2014). Integrated Modeling and Evolution of Social Software. In: Zweig, K., Neuser, W., Pipek, V., Rohde, M., Scholtes, I. (eds) Socioinformatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09378-9_6

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