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Modeling approaches are necessarily grounded in epistemic and ontological assumptions about the domain in question. Even in predominantly technical areas, these assumptions are Influenced by the worldview of methods, designers and users, being strongly shaped by cultural and social factors. Moreover, modeling social aspects of collaborative networks involves another level of complexity: the subject itself. In fact, we have to decide which social aspects are to be modeled and how they will be modeled. Both decisions are biased by cultural and social influences. In this work, we have tried to approach some fundamental issues of modeling social aspects of collaborative networks, taking into account these particular concerns.
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Soares, A.L., de Sousa, J.P. (2004). Modeling Social Aspects of Collaborative Networks. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Collaborative Networked Organizations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7833-1_28
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