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Conflict Management in CONCORD

N. Ritter, B. Mitschang and T. Haerder

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Abstract:

Amongst the most important components in concurrent design/engineering environments is a flexible and sophisticated activity management. Due to the fact that designers and design groups generally work in parallel on a common design task, thus performing collaborate work, activity management on one hand has to support concurrent design, whilst on the other hand it has to deal with any kinds of design conflicts either on basic design data, derived design objects, or even on applied design strategies or design goals. Since such undesired events and conflicts may occur, an adequate conflict management has to be provided. In this paper, we discuss the concepts and principles of conflict handling in design environments. As a result of our considerations, we propose a layered conflict management architecture to be integrated with the existing activity management of a CAD framework. As an example, we elaborate this architecture in the context of our CONCORD system.

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In: 5th Int. Conf. on Data and Knowledge Bases for Manufacturing and Engineering (DKSME'96), Tempe, 1996.