Computer Science ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 228-234.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2015.11.047

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Stigmergy-based Collaborative Conceptual Modeling in Web Environment

JIANG Yi, ZHANG Wei, ZHAO Hai-yan and JIN Zhi   

  • Online:2018-11-14 Published:2018-11-14

Abstract: With the increasing of the domain’s scale and complexity,constructing the conceptual model of the domain is usually beyond individual’s ability.The problem can be solved through gathering and organizing the collective intelligence.In this way,the collaborative conceptual modeling approach was of great significance.Based on a social-insects collaboration mechanism,called stigmergy,an approach was proposed to help the large-scale modelers to conduct colla-borative conceptual modeling in the Web environment.The main characteristic of this approach is twofold.First,this approach provides an environment-based indirect interaction method to solve scalability problem in the communication.Second,this approach provides a stimulation-based collaboration mechanism to initially solve the collaboration problem in such open and distributed environment.Based on this,the collaborator can learn from each experience and knowledge to improve the conceptual model.We conducted a case to evaluate the feasibility of this approach.

Key words: Concept modeling,Collaborative modeling,Stigmergy

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