Collaborative Engineering Based on Knowledge Sharing Agreements

Abstract

The design of products by multi-disciplinary groups is a knowledge intensive activity Collaborators must be able to exchange informa tion and share some common understanding of the informaton's content The hope, however, that an integrated workbench of application tools will span the needs of engineering collaborators is misplaced We argue that an integrated workbench of application tools cannot meet the long- term needs of engineering collaborators Moreover, standards cannot satisfy the information sharing needs of collaborators, because these needs are dynamic

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collaborative engineering information modelling enterprise integration software agents ontologies knowledge sharing computer integrated engineering

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