Architectural Patterns for Modeling Human Interactions

Abstract

In this research, we proposed a new design pattern for the joint work with a collaborative nature, whether participants are Biddable entities like human or Casual entities, as an imporatnt aspect in architectural design. The proposed pattern is supported with methematical semantics to ensure that it maintains seperation between computaion and coordination. The complexity of the pattern's design is reflected in the case of refuse or no-reactions of participants. The pattern represents as a first step in a full collaborative system that can be extended as a new dimension , to give a higher level of software abstraction, to the previous ones: Computation, Coordination and Location. Hence, this fourth level represents a real contribution in supporting software reusability. The pattern has been implemented in a language known as CommUnity. CommUnity as a parallel program design language, that is built on the top of Catgeory Theory, is used to analyze and to provide systematic formalism for software architecture and to separate between the computations of components and their coordinated interactions, via Connectors, as an essential issue in architectural description. Since CommUnity does not support Collaboration, the proposed pattern can be added as an extension to CommUnity.