Toward a Knowledge Medium for Collaborative Product Development
Toward a Knowledge Medium for Collaborative Product Development
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走向协作产品开发的知识媒介
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-011-2787-5_21
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
J. Weber
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作者:
T. Gruber;J. M. Tenenbaum;J. Weber
Information sharing and decision coordination are central problems for large-scale product development. This paper proposes a framework for supporting aknowledge medium(Stefik 1986): 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 degree of commitment to a shared representation by participating tools. A number of research issues, fundamental to building such a knowledge medium, are introduced in the paper.