NDLI: Petri nets in the evaluation of collaborative systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ferraro, A.M. Rogers, E.H.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: MicroStrategy Inc., Vienna, VA, USA (Ferraro, A.M.)
Abstract	Petri nets were conceived by Carl Petri as a mathematical means of describing activities, resources, and states of a system. They have been used to model, analyze and evaluate control system behavior. They have also been used in software engineering. More recently, Petri nets have been used to describe the behavior of computer supported workflows and extended to apply to protocols appearing in collaborative systems comprised of human participants and multiple resources including oral communication and electronic interaction. In every case, the Petri nets are modeling protocols. These interaction management rules include interfaces among real machines, virtual machines and humans. The paper describes Petri net modeling in the context of a study of team interactions in a mixed media lab setting. Analysis of extensive records of team speech and use of computer tools available to each member, led to empirically derived Petri nets which capture actual behavior, including the evolution of team preferred protocols. Among these were synergies between member communications via distinct media. Specifically, throughout the study, the participants, unbeknownst to them, were learning to use oral communication to change the protocols which were assigned for the electronic medium. The change in behavior was so subtle that only through evaluating the transcripts and creating Petri net models to capture observed behavior was this made clear.
Starting Page	3918
Ending Page	3923
File Size	441376
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780340531
ISSN	1062922X
DOI	10.1109/ICSMC.1997.633283
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Petri nets Collaboration Protocols Humans Oral communication Speech analysis Control system analysis Control system synthesis Communication system control Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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