Geo-Social Model: A Conceptual Framework for Real-time Geocollaboration

Synchronous geocollaboration helps geographically dispersed people to work together in a shared geospatial environment. Its real‐time nature, multiple users' interaction and diversity of work context impose some special social, organizational and technological requirements, making the developme...

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Published in:Transactions in GIS 2013-04, Vol.17 (2), p.182-205
Main Authors: Chang, Zheng (Eric), Li, Songnian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Analysis
Collaboration
Expert systems
Geographic information systems
Mathematical models
Real time
Satellite navigation systems
Software engineering
Studies
Synchronous
Tasks
Three dimensional
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Summary:Synchronous geocollaboration helps geographically dispersed people to work together in a shared geospatial environment. Its real‐time nature, multiple users' interaction and diversity of work context impose some special social, organizational and technological requirements, making the development of such real‐time geocollaboration systems a challenging task. A conceptual framework is therefore needed to specify and describe what synchronous geocollaboration is, considering its social, spatial and technical aspects. The geo‐social model presented in this article describes a conceptual framework for synchronous geocollaboration systems addressing the above aspects, identifies the core elements of the system and describes how these elements collaborate with each other. This model is presented using application‐level ontology and is then applied to a multi‐agent system based prototype in which multiple users can interact and negotiate in a shared 3D geospatial environment.
ISSN:1361-1682
1467-9671
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01352.x