Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III: 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers / Edition 1

by Weiming Shen, Junzhou Luo, Zongkai Lin, Jean-Paul A. Barthès, Qi Hao

Overview

The design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidiscip- nary design teams using multiple commercial and proprietary engineering software tools (e.g., CAD, modeling, simulation, visualization, and optimization), engineering databases, and knowledge-based systems. Individuals or individual groups of mult- isciplinary design teams usually work in parallel and separately with various en- neering software tools which are located at different sites. In addition, individual members may be working on different versions of a design or viewing the design from different perspectives, at different levels of detail. In order to accomplish the work, it is necessary to have effective and efficient c- laborative design environments. Such environments should not only automate in- vidual tasks, in the manner of traditional computer-aided engineering tools, but also enable individual members to share information, collaborate, and coordinate their activities within the context of a design project. CSCW (computer-supported coope- tive work) in design is concerned with the development of such environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540728627
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/08/2007
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #4402
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	763
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

CSCW Techniques and Methods.- Collaborative Design.- Collaborative Manufacturing and Enterprise Collaboration.- Design Methods and Tools.- Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.- Web Services, Semantic Web, and Grid Computing.- Knowledge Management.- Security and Privacy in CSCW Systems.- Workflow Management.- E-Learning.