UM METAMODELO PARA CONFIGURAÇÃO DE ESPAÇOS DE TRABALHO VIRTUAIS COLABORATIVOS: APLICAÇÃO NO GERENCIAMENTO DE DESASTRES DE ESTRUTURAS OFFSHORE DE ÓLEO E GÁS

Russo, Enio Emanuel Ramos. A Metamodel for Configuring Collaborative Virtual Workspaces: Application in Disaster Management of Oil & Gas Offshore Structures. Rio de Janeiro, 2006. 198 p. D.Sc. Thesis Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Many companies have been creating virtual teams that bring together geographically dispersed workers with complementary skills, increasing the demand for CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) applications. In order to facilitate the development of a wide range of these collaborative applications, we should offer a general architecture that is adaptable to different situations, tasks, and settings in a flexible way. This work investigates how a distributed workspace environment can support disaster management, involving distributed collaborative technical teams. We first identify the requirements for the distributed workspace, from the stakeholders involved in a disaster, and analyse the commercial emergency systems available. We then elaborate a multi-perspective metamodel to support configuring this collaborative virtual workspace. Finally a prototype for oil & gas offshore structures disaster management based on our multi-perspective metamodel is derived and an HLA (High Level Architecture) compliant implementation for this prototype is developed as a proof-of-concept of the metamodel.