Computer model of the interactions among members of an inter-professional/interdisciplinary team

跨学科团队（IDT）代表了许多行业的工作方式。虽然现有的工作流执行系统能够为IDT的操作提供基本支持，但它们不足以捕获丰富的团队动态（即团队创建、任务分配、团队连续性的维护）。具体来说，每个IDT都必须有一个领导者，负责监督工作流的执行并做出关键决策，而团队成员执行的任务与他们的能力相兼容，而不是由他们的专业角色决定。IDT的组成随着时间的推移而变化，成员在完成轮班后离开，新成员被招募来执行需要新能力的任务。 拟议的研究计划正式化和操作化IDT动态，以支持团队运作。其长期目标是创建一个新的架构框架，该框架将允许对IDT动态进行建模，并支持基于团队的工作流执行。 实现这一长期目标需要实现四个目标： 目标1：建模IDT和工作流的结构。实际的考虑意味着建模团队领导，基于能力的任务分配，时间依赖的团队成员，需要团队的连续性，和团队的结构演变。实现这一目标将导致建模的IDT的结构化特征的基础本体。 目标2：设计负责表示IDT动态的架构框架的建模组件。将关注在多个团队同时运营并争夺有限人力资源的环境中管理动态。实现这一目标需要建模的一般IDT环境的形式的状态规则和建模的时间团队动态规划问题，使用规划规则。 目标3：设计架构框架的其余组件。这是为了将建模组件与计划器、工作流执行工具和外部IT基础设施集成在一起。这项工作将创建一个概念原型的证明。 目标4：通过使用案例研究评估原型来证明架构框架的通用性。一个案例研究将来自渥太华医院的肺癌转化倡议，而另一个来自加拿大导航公司的航班应用战略小组。对于这些案例研究中的每一个，将根据该领域的团队相关和上下文相关特征定制概念验证原型。 这一研究将产生学术和实践影响。在学术方面，它将为代表团队动态提供机会，从而推动关于为信息技术专家提供计算机工具的研究。在实践方面，它将为扩展工作流管理系统开辟途径，以支持IDT执行工作流。

An interdisciplinary team (IDT) represents a modus operandi for a number of industries. While existing workflow execution systems are capable of providing basic support for the operations of an IDT, they are not sufficient to capture rich team dynamics (i.e. team creation, allocation of tasks, maintenance of team continuity). Specifically, every IDT has to have a leader who oversees the execution of a workflow and makes key decisions while team members execute tasks that are compatible with their capabilities rather than being determined by their professional roles. The composition of an IDT changes over time members leave as they finish their shifts and new members are recruited to execute tasks requiring new capabilities. The proposed research program formalizes and operationalizes IDT dynamics in order to support team operations. Its long-term objective is to create a new architectural framework that will allow modeling IDT dynamics and will support team-based execution of the workflow. Achieving this long-term objective will require accomplishing four goals: Goal 1: Modeling the structure of an IDT and a workflow. Practical considerations imply modelling team leadership, capability-based task assignment, time-dependent team membership, need for team's continuity, and evolution of team's structure. Accomplishing this goal will result in modelling structured characteristics of an IDT in terms of a foundational ontology. Goal 2: Designing modeling components of the architectural framework responsible for representing IDT dynamics. Attention will be paid to managing dynamics in an environment where multiple teams operate simultaneously and compete for limited human resources. Accomplishing this goal requires modelling the general IDT environment in the form of status rules and modeling temporal team dynamics as a planning problem using planning rules. Goal 3: Designing remaining components of the architectural framework. This is to integrate the modeling components with the planner, workflow execution tools, and external IT infrastructure. This work will create a proof of concept prototype. Goal 4: Demonstrating generalizability of the architectural framework by assessing the prototype using case studies. One case study will come from the Lung Cancer Transfor-mation Initiative at the Ottawa Hospital while the other from the Flights Applications Strategy Group at Nav Canada. For each of these case studies a proof of concept prototype will be customized to team-related and context-related characteristics of the domain. This research will have academic and practical impacts. On the academic side, it will open up opportunities for representing team dynamics, thus advancing research on providing IDTs with computer-based tools. On the practical side, it will open up avenues for extending workflow management systems to support workflow execution by the IDTs.