Collaborative modeling: hiding UML and promoting data examples in NEMo

Domain experts are essential for successful software development, but these experts may not recognize their ideas when abstracted into Unified Modeling Language (UML) or ontologies. We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare and validate the model. The open-source tool, “NEMo,” is a by-product of a team effort to invent and refine a complex data model and library of examples. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.1 [Software Engineering]: Requirements/ Specifications – elicitation methods, methodologies, tools. D.2.10 [Software Engineering]: Design – methodologies, repre

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Patricia K. Schank, Lawrence Hamel
• Keywords: CSCW 2004, Data Model, Social Sciences, Software Engineering, Unified Modeling Language