Workspace requirements for complex adaptive systems

Business processes are becoming increasingly collaborative and dynamic in nature. Correspondingly computer systems must provide the systems to support both the collaboration and changing work practices. This paper describes the modelling and technical requirements to support such processes. It suggests that any support system must be consistent with the more open nature of dynamic systems and provide the design methods and technical support systems to support them. The paper describes a collaborative metamodel to model dynamic systems and ways to convert the models to implementations. The paper stresses the need for lightweight technologies to support dynamic systems and uses the models to define requirements of such technologies.