P120 - Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Effective Collaborative Engineering(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Haake, Joerg M.; Schümmer, TillFacilitating and managing the development and application of effective shared work practice in distributed teams remain a key challenge for effective collaborative engineering. We propose integrated support for project management, collaboration and engineering activities through dedicated task patterns, which are combined into a holistic model of collaborative engineering practice. Flexible enactment support for this model facilitates system and human enactment while using collaboration services as a front-end to project management and engineering facilitates effective teamwork. Finally, a reflexive learning cycle fosters the development of improved shared practice. Experiences in three industrial pilots suggest the applicability of the approach.
- KonferenzbeitragAn Approach for model based Requirement Engineering of Participative Engineering Methodology(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Johnsen, Svein G.; Rolfsen, Rolf K.; Tellioglu, HildaIn the context of the MAPPER project, the paper presents an approach for model based methodology requirement engineering with the mission of supporting the creation and utilisation of a requirement and assessment model enabling a dynamic representation of all methodology requirement and solution related artefacts and structures. The experiences from the application of the approach are presented and discussed.
- KonferenzbeitragProduct Based Interoperability – Approaches and Requirements(Coordination of Collaborative Engineering - State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2007) Jørgensen, Håvard D.; Karlsen, Dag; Lillehagen, FrankProduct data, information and knowledge are the core ICT resources for collaborative design. This paper describes five different approaches to exchanging and sharing product data in collaborative engineering: 1) Document management, 2) Enterprise application integration, 3) Reference models and semantic web, 4) shared product data repository, and 5) Federated product knowledge architecture. State of the art in academic research and industrial practice is briefly assessed. The paper concludes by outlining challenges and directions towards realizing federate product knowledge architectures.
- 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.
- 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.