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

跨专业/跨学科团队成员之间互动的计算机模型

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-03718
• 负责人: Michalowski, Wojtek
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=712010
• 关键词: Computer; model; interactions; among; members

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.

跨学科团队（IDT）代表了许多行业的工作模式。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都必须有一个负责人，负责监督工作流的执行并做出关键决策，而团队成员则执行与他们的能力相匹配的任务，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。