Computer Supported Cooperative Work In Design I 8th International Conference Cscwd 2004 Xiamen China May 2628 2004 Revised Selected Papers 1st Edition Zhiwei Xu by Zhiwei Xu, Ning Yang, Huaming Liao (auth.), Weiming Shen, Zongkai Lin, Jean-paul A. Barthès, Tangqiu Li (eds.) 9783540294009, 9783540317401, 3540294007, 3540317406 instant download after payment.

The design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams using multiple commercial and non-commercial engineering tools such as CAD tools, modeling, simulation and optimization software, engineering databases, and knowledge-based systems. Individuals or individual groups of multidisciplinary design teams usually work in parallel and separately with various engineering tools, which are located on different sites, often for quite a long time. At any moment, individual members may be working on different versions of a design or viewing the design from various perspectives, at different levels of detail. In order to meet these requirements, it is necessary to have effective and efficient collaborative design environments. These environments should not only automate individual tasks, in the manner of traditional computer-aided engineering tools, but also enable individual members to share information, collaborate and coordinate their activities within the context of a design project. CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) in design is concerned with the development of such environments.