Toward a Knowledge Medium for Collaborative Product Development (1992)
| Venue: | In J. S. Gero (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Design ‘92 |
| Citations: | 27 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gruber92towarda,
author = {Thomas R. Gruber and Jay M. Tenenbaum and Jay C. Weber},
title = {Toward a Knowledge Medium for Collaborative Product Development},
booktitle = {In J. S. Gero (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Design ‘92},
year = {1992},
pages = {413--432},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}
}
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Abstract
Information sharing and decision coordination are central problems for large-scale product development. This paper proposes a framework for supporting a knowledge medium [32]: a computational environment in which explicitly represented knowledge serves as a communication medium among people and their programs. The framework is designed to support information sharing and coordinated communication among members of a product development organization, particularly for the tasks of design knowledge capture, dynamic notification of design changes, and active management of design dependencies. The proposed technology consists of a shared knowledge representation (language and vocabulary), protocols for foreign data encapsulation and posting to the shared environment, and mechanisms for content-directed routing of posted information to interested parties via subscription and notification services. A range of possible applications can be explored in this framework, depending on the ...
