Scalable Enterprise Systems: Coopetitive Design and Manufacture Across Organizations

这笔赠款为跨学科合作提供资金，将设计和制造专家与计算机科学专家聚集在一起，定义可扩展的信息基础设施，以支持多组织环境中的产品设计，在合作环境中具有有限但关键的信任和共享。为此，该项目将研究将大型设计分解成相对独立处理的较小部分；它将使用和扩展XML互联网标准，以创建面向对象的设计数据库结构的“自我描述”机制，以便每个设计小组可以独立地选择以最适合其目的的形式组织信息，以及标准化格式的模式描述和访问控制元数据；它将开发工具来管理分散的分布式环境中的协同设计，并使用通用的发布/订阅模型来改变联盟和感兴趣的主题。该项目的最终结果将是建立一个全面的跨企业设计信息管理系统的基础。这项研究的结果将缩短上市时间，提高汽车等复杂产品的设计效率。它还有可能给企业资源管理带来革命性的变化。

This grant provides funding for a interdisciplinary collaboration bringing together design and manufacturing experts with computer science experts to define a scalable information infrastructure to support product design in a multi-organization environment with limited but crucial trust and sharing in a cooperative context. To this end, this project will study the decomposition of a large design into smaller pieces that are worked on relatively independently; it will use and extend the XML internet standard to create a mechanism for "self-description" of an object-oriented design database structure so that each design group can independently choose to organize information in the most suitable form for its purpose, along with a schema description and access control meta-data in a standardized format; and it will develop tools to manage collaborative design in a diffuse distributed context, with shifting coalitions and topics of interest, using a generalized publish/subscribe model.The end result of this project will be to create the basis upon which to build a comprehensive inter-enterprise design information management system. The results obtained from this research will reduce time-to-market and increase efficiencies in the design of complex products such as automobiles. It also has the potential to revolutionize enterprise resource management.