The topics of the workshop include but are not restricted to:
- The process of cooperative modeling: design cycles, model negotiation, view integration, roles of participants in modeling, team organization, etc.
- Sustaining model usage and maintenance in organizations
- Motivating involvement and active usage of models
- Involving non-experts in model development and usage
- Increasing the range of involvement: from core stakeholders to all stakeholders
- Coupling models with activities and entities of work
- Roles of models for collaboration e.g. guides / maps
- Models as instruments for consensus building
- The role of models in spanning inter or intra organizational boundaries
- Integrating visual modeling and model dialogues in natural language
- Tools for collaborative model usage by non-expert model users
- “Meta”-modeling: structuring the dialogue around models
- Access to models: Creating a model friendly cooperation environment
- Alignment of different understandings about collaborative work during modeling
- Empirical evidence for positive effects of modeling and model use