Group Organizational Structure Adaptation for Groupware Applications

In the organizations, the groupwork is determined by an organizational structure that is governed by a set of rules that establish its configuration. This configuration can change in accordance with tasks and group needs at a given moment. It is very important that the groupware applications can adapt dynamically to cope with changing organizational structure conditions and unexpected system errors. This paper presents, on the one hand the ontology-based modelled of the group organizational structure in the groupware applications; the ontology takes into account the dynamic aspects of the group organizational structure to adapting to different changes. On the other hand, the adaptation process that allows to adapt dynamically group organizational structure in the groupware applications. This process adjusts the application functionality by the user’s direct intervention (adaptable process) and automatically (adaptive process); thus we show two cases studies for each type of adaptation.