Analyzing runtime adaptability of collaboration patterns

With the emergence of large-scale complex systems, the boundary between humans and software becomes increasingly blurry. Adaptation mechanisms thus need to consider the interaction structure amongst users to derive appropriate adaptation actions. Most existing systems, however, lack such collaboration awareness and thus cannot deliver the required flexibility that large-scale collaboration need to remain operational. In this paper, we analyze the flexibility of the underlying collaboration structures based on behavior, asynchrony, state, and execution context. The evaluation of three collaboration patterns and exemplary real world systems demonstrates that collaboration pattern awareness is of uttermost importance for apprehending a system´s adaptation constraints and subsequently enacting appropriate adaptation actions.