P120 - Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges
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- KonferenzbeitragPractices and Cultures of Knowledge Management(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Jacucci, Gianni; Tellioglu, Hilda; Wagner, InaIn this paper we take a CSCW perspective on knowledge management, looking at it at the level of daily work practice in two different contexts – project management and engineering design work. Special attention is paid to the diversity of artefacts central to knowledge management. Our analysis makes use of fieldwork in two companies. We use the notion of vignettes to illustrate a variety of knowledge management issues of which we want to mainly address three: The existence of different professional cultures and their interpretation schemes and how these influence representational genres, issues of boundary management and what we describe as a fragmentation of the knowledge base, and knowledge management practices as part of cooperative work.
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- KonferenzbeitragBusiness Process and Workflow Management for Design of Electronic Systems – Balancing Flexibility and Control(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Pawlak, Adam; Jørgensen, Håvard D.; Penkala, Piotr; Fraś, PawełThe application of business process management (BPM) and workflow management (WfM) technologies for design and verification of electronic systems is not straightforward. Flexible, evolving and human-centred process execution is needed to support creative design tasks performed by designers. Rigorous control, and automation of procedures are needed for quality assurance, training, resource management, and for simplifying the use of complex design and verification tools. This paper presents a novel knowledge-based approach for integration of BPM with engineering design processes represented as workflows. The approach combines flexibility and control of business and engineering processes in a customizable manner. It supports also better coordination of distributed design tasks through management procedures expressed as visual models. The solutions presented in the paper are being developed and applied in the MAPPER project1, where two SMEs are working together to produce a joint high-speed USB product.
- KonferenzbeitragCollaboration - New Media – Design An Integrated Environment for Supporting Collaboration in Building Design(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Carrara, Gianfranco; Fioravanti, AntonioBuilding is one of the most widespread human activities, as it involves a far greater number of people and professional profiles than all other industries and absorbs about half of world energy consumption. Its multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature makes the design-construction process, as well as the building product, increasingly complex. It is thus always more difficult, with usual design methods and efficiently to obtain correctly designed solutions and to favour creativity, while respecting assigned time schedules and budgets. These are very well known problems, on which abundant efforts and resources have been spent in pursuit of an efficient solution. One generally agreed solution is efficient collaboration among the design actors, although all the forms and tools proposed hitherto do not allow all the difficulties embedded in the problem itself to be overcome. The great potentialities of the new media are considered to be crucial for the resolution of the previously mentioned problem, although, until now, this approach has raised new problems than it has solved the old ones. To provide a more efficient collaboration among all the actors involved in the design process, this paper presents a model of the structure of the building design process based on the Collaborative Work Environment paradigm that allows us to define a system supporting integrated building design. Its philosophy is to follow through the actual design process in order to allow actors to behave as they are accustomed. Its structure relies on the dialectics among distributed knowledge bases and a shared (and agreed) one, while the design solution workspace on its turn can be conceived so as subdivided into a private one, specific to any actor, and one shared among them. Human actors are supported by intelligent assistants. The system semantically translates the information exchanged (both formally and informally) among the actors, allows incoherent/favourable situations to be highlighted and managed in real time, and can facilitate the onset and dissemination of creative ideas. System implementation has preliminarily been presented as a game, in order to avoid unnecessary complexity while retaining generality, so that can be used as an e-learning tool.
- KonferenzbeitragPersonal Knowledge Management in Engineering Design – Issues, Concepts and Applications(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Pokojski, JerzyThe paper presents the basic concepts of personal knowledge structuring in engineering design with a computer tool known as the personal assistant of designer. The article concentrates on the main conceptual issues of the proposed approach.
- KonferenzbeitragReflections on Future Collaborative Work(ing) Environments - CWEs(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Eicker, S.; Heimann, E.; Stewing, F.-J.The delayed delivery of the AIRBUS A380© demonstrates the challenges to be faced in the field of cross-company collaboration today. On the one hand, available CWE platforms are used insufficiently. On the other hand, they do not yet support collaboration in a completely adequate way. This paper illustrates the current state of CWE practice by way of a sample company, its internal and external collaboration processes and the services used. Improvements provided by major vendors in the domain of commercial CWE platforms and the current techniques of Web-2.0 are analysed with regard to the concept of context- based communities that ought to be applied within any CWE efforts according to this paper.
- KonferenzbeitragDomain Repositories as Coordination Support in Collaborative Engineering(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Sandkuhl, Kurt; Billig, AndreasCollaborative engineering involves knowledge-intensive activities involving different specialists in collaboration processes tailored for the engineering domain under consideration. Focus of this paper is a specific aspect of coordination: how to support joint use of artefacts during collaborative engineering based on domain repositories. Starting from selected application examples, requirements towards domain repositories are identified. In this context, the domain repository ODIS offers basic functionality for coordination support by facilitating integrative, partitionable and user adaptable artefact management. Selected CSCW approaches, i.e. a groupware reference architecture and propositions for coordination mechanisms, are used to identify ODIS extensions.
- KonferenzbeitragA Web Services based approach for System on a Chip design planning(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Witczyński, Maciej; Hrynkiewicz, Edward; Pawlak, AdamThe concept of Virtual Organisation (VO) offers various solutions to management, collaboration and coordination issues important for distributed collaborating teams. Deployment of this concept to distributed electronic system design has been addressed in this paper. The article introduces an organizational model of a VO dedicated for System-on-Chip (SoC) design and an architecture of the supporting ICT infrastructure that has been based on the Web Services technology. The developed multi-tier distributed application supports interoperability of heterogeneous computer systems belonging to dispersed design partners. Implementation issues, as well as the experiments verifying the utility of the solution for SoC design planning are shortly reported.
- KonferenzbeitragTowards an ontology of collaboration patterns(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Pattberg, Jonas; Fluegge, MatthiasThe concept of patterns and pattern languages has been applied in different application domains like software engineering, human computer interaction, and pedagogy. In the area of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) there are different understandings on what collaboration patterns are and how they can be described and defined. Collaboration patterns are specified at different levels of granularity and in relation to different application contexts. In this article, after introducing the general idea of patterns and its application in the CWE domain, we present an approach for creating a layered ontology in order to integrate collaboration patterns of different granularities and at different levels of abstraction.
- KonferenzbeitragSupporting Shared Understanding within Distributed Enterprise Development Teams(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Rubart, Jessica; Müller, StephanThis paper presents a practitioners’ report on supporting shared understanding within distributed development teams. Our software domain focuses on Enterprise development in the context of customer relationship management. We are applying meta use cases, software reuse through a component-based architecture, a UML-based modeling language, and groupware tools as means to support shared understanding.