Viewing concurrent design as processes of collaboration, coordination and co-decision
making within and between cross-functional teams, we argue that an appropriate integration …

This paper presents the software architecture for a next generation concurrent engineering
environment that helps geographically separated designers and engineers to collaborate …

Support for concurrent engineering must address the" multiple perspectives problem"—
many actors, many representation schemes, diverse domain knowledge, and differing …

Design and engineering increasingly face complex and dynamic requirements, and often
require involvement of experts from a variety of disciplines. To ensure interoperability of sub …

Concurrent Design (CD) involves collaboration, coordination, and information-based co-
decision making within a potentially distributed multifunctional team. This paper shows that a …

Computer-supported cooperative work has been the focus of attention in a concurrent
engineering environment for some time. This paper studies this cooperative team …

The development of products in large industrial organizations involves numerous engineers
from different disciplines working on inter-dependent components of the product with …

We present a new model for concurrency control that supports cooperation of design tools
and designers in a design environment. We capture characteristic access and cooperation …

Sharing data is an important aspect in distributed design environments and should be
supported by an underlying system. Any synchronous access to data is conflict prone …

Integrating multiple engineering perspectives is critical to designing ever more complex
products, but this introduces great potential for miscommunication leading to design …