The M3W project
Model-driven support for Multi-channel Mobile Work
Financing and administrative information
M3W is a project financed by The Norwegian Research Council (NFR) under the program VERDIKT, for the period January 2006 - December 2009. It supports 3 PhD students that started their work the autumn of 2006. Project manager is Professor John Krogstie, IDI, NTNU. Other researchers involved are Professors Guttorm Sindre IDI, NTNU and Andreas L. Opdahl IFI, UIB, Bergen Norway. Since the PhD students also do 25% teaching paid by the department, they are scheduled to finish September 2010.
Project summary
The project will develop and evaluate a prototype process support system for mobile work built on top of existing components. The mobile work system prototype will be:
- Model-driven to support rapid tailoring of work processes to utilise technology changes and to reflect changing requirements at the organisation, group and user levels.
- Multi-channel to support coordinated use of multiple types of mobile devices and other computing equipment in a single work process
For this purpose, the project will develop:
- A model-driven process support system for multi-channel mobile work, based on interactive enterprise modelling and requirements specification techniques that deal with unstable and unclear work processes and with unstable, unclear and sometimes inconsistent requirements at the user, group and organisation levels.
- Multi-channel solutions for a model-driven mobile work system based on interactive enterprise information architecture modelling techniques to integrate the mobile work system with the users’ other systems of choice and to support rapid system reconfigurations that utilise technology changes.
- Model-integration techniques to integrate the interactive models (1) with one another to make it possible to coordinate and evolve (models of) work processes, requirements and architectures over time and (2) with existing model enactment techniques to enable user-friendly planning and execution of processes according to task priority and user profiles.
The project will evaluate the proposed approach both analytically and empirically, by involving industrial partners in evaluation activities.
Project web site
For more information, see the project web site http://m3w.idi.ntnu.no