Agile Professional Virtual Community Inheritance via Adaptation of Social Protocols

TL;DR

This paper introduces an adaptive model for professional virtual communities that leverages negotiation and social protocol adaptation to improve collaboration and inheritance management.

Contribution

It proposes a novel model incorporating negotiation-based social protocol adaptation and strategies for continuous PVC inheritance management.

Findings

Effective social protocol adaptation strategies identified

Negotiation enhances collaboration process flexibility

Model supports continuous PVC inheritance management

Abstract

Support for human-to-human interactions over a network is still insufficient, particularly for professional virtual communities (PVC). Among other limitations, adaptation and learning-by-experience capabilities of humans are not taken into account in existing models for collaboration processes in PVC. This paper presents a model for adaptive human collaboration. A key element of this model is the use of negotiation for adaptation of social protocols modelling processes. A second contribution is the proposition of various adaptation propagation strategies as means for continuous management of the PVC inheritance.