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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-07-0873</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23316</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>D.2.13 - Reusable Software</subject>
          <subject>D.2.1 - Requirements/Specifications</subject>
          <subject>D.2.2 - Design Tools and Techniques</subject>
          <subject>H.5.3 - Group and Organization Interfaces</subject>
          <subject>J.0 - GENERAL</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>On the Development and Usability of a Diagram-based Collaborative Brainstorming Component</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Azevedo</surname>
            <given-names>Diogo</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">diogoa@utad.pt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Fonseca</surname>
            <given-names>Benjamim</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Paredes</surname>
            <given-names>Hugo</given-names>
          </name>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4274-4783</uri>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lukosch</surname>
            <given-names>Stephan</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Janeiro</surname>
            <given-names>Jordan</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Briggs</surname>
            <given-names>Robert Owen</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">INESC TEC - INESC Technology &amp; Science, Porto, Portugal</addr-line>
        <institution>INESC TEC - INESC Technology &amp; Science</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Porto</addr-line>
        <country>Portugal</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands</addr-line>
        <institution>Delft University of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Delft</addr-line>
        <country>Netherlands</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">San Diego University, San Diego, United States of America</addr-line>
        <institution>San Diego University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">San Diego</addr-line>
        <country>United States of America</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Diogo Azevedo (<email xlink:type="simple">diogoa@utad.pt</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <fpage>873</fpage>
      <lpage>893</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/1FB3E22B-6167-59DA-9599-EF7BF978BA00">1FB3E22B-6167-59DA-9599-EF7BF978BA00</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505293">5505293</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Diogo Azevedo, Benjamim Fonseca, Hugo Paredes, Stephan Lukosch, Jordan Janeiro, Robert Owen Briggs</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>The need for computer-supported collaboration has grown over the last years and made collaboration an important factor within organizations. This trend has resulted in the development of a variety of tools and technologies to support the various forms of collaboration. Many collaborative processes, e.g. strategy building, scenario analysis, root cause analysis and requirements engineering, require various collaboration support tools. Data flow, fishbone and brainstorming diagrams, play an important role within these synchronous collaborative applications to create, evaluate, elaborate, discuss, and revise graphical models. Currently, the necessary tools are not integrated and flexible enough to support such processes. In this paper, a synchronous collaborative brainstorming diagram editor integrated in a flexible group support system is described. This approach goes beyond the current state of the art as it can be seamlessly integrated with other collaboration support tools such as text-based brainstorming or voting. The usability of the taken approach is evaluated within a case study on collaborative learning.</p>
      </abstract>
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