SM2PIA: A Model to Support the Development of Pragmatic Interoperability Requirements

Companies have increasingly distributed their teams to increase productivity and quality, and to reduce their costs in software development processes. This scenario has brought new challenges to effective collaboration and to enhance communication across peers. Pragmatic interoperability has been considered as one of the key requirements to tackle these challenges. However, there is lack of research investigating how to support development of pragmatic interoperability across globally dispersed groups. This paper proposes a model to support pragmatic interoperability in software projects to foster collaboration in distributed environments. The proposed model was implemented and evaluated in a collaborative architecture which supports collaborative scientific experiments development.