Communication infrastructure for concurrent engineering

摘要: Integrating multiple engineering perspectives is critical to designing ever more complex products, but this introduces great potential for miscommunication leading design conflicts. The SHADE (SHAred Dependency Engineering) project defining agent infrastructure technology that supports dynamic, knowledge-based communication among heterogeneous tools, collaboration systems, and conflict management systems. Building on technologies a shared formal vocabulary protocols exchanging information, developing facilitators assist in locating disseminating information. result flexible helps existing tools work together effectively, variety of new approaches. This article outlines the facilitation application agents created by SHADE, provides an in-depth example their task.