Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I: 8th International Conference, CSCWD 2004, Xiamen, China, May 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3168)

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. Front Matter....Pages - Vega Information Grid for Collaborative Computing....Pages 1-10 Physical Object Icons Buttons Gesture (PIBG): A New Interaction Paradigm with Pen....Pages 11-20 A Novel Method of QoS Based Resource Management and Trust Based Task Scheduling....Pages 21-32 Learning to Plan the Collaborative Design Process....Pages 33-44 Groupware System Design and the Context Concept....Pages 45-54 Grid Authorization Management Oriented to Large-Scale Collaborative Computing....Pages 55-66 Research on Network Performance Measurement Based on SNMP....Pages 67-75 Concepts, Model and Framework of Cooperative Software Engineering....Pages 76-85 An Algorithm for Cooperative Learning of Bayesian Network Structure from Data....Pages 86-94 Non-violative User Profiling Approach for Website Design Improvement....Pages 95-104 Generative Design in an Agent Based Collaborative Design System....Pages 105-116 Similarity Based Agents for Design....Pages 117-126 Semantic Integration in Distributed Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Environments....Pages 127-136 Formal Dialogue and Its Application to Team Formation in Cooperative Design....Pages 137-146 MA_CORBA: A Mobile Agent System Architecture Based on CORBA....Pages 147-155 A Multi-agent Based Method for Handling Exceptions in Computer Supported Cooperative Design....Pages 156-164 CEJ – An Environment for Flexible Definition and Execution of Scientific Publication Processes....Pages 165-174 Methodology of Integrated Knowledge Management in Lifecycle of Product Development Process and Its Implementation....Pages 175-186 Knowledge-Based Cooperative Design Technology of Networked Manufacturing....Pages 187-198 Multi-ontology Based System for Distributed Configuration....Pages 199-210 Online Collaborative Design Within a Web-Enabled Environment....Pages 211-220 C-Superman: A Web-Based Synchronous Collaborative CAD/CAM System....Pages 221-229 Developing a Multidisciplinary Approach of Concurrent Engineering....Pages 230-241 Hardware/Software Co-design Environment for Hierarchical Platform-Based Design....Pages 242-251 A Computer Supported Collaborative Dynamic Measurement System....Pages 252-259 A Collaborative Management and Training Model for Smart Switching System....Pages 260-269 A Web-Based Fuzzy-AHP Method for VE Partner Selection and Evaluation....Pages 270-278 A Method of Network Simplification in a 4PL System....Pages 279-288 Using Augmented Reality Technology to Support the Automobile Development....Pages 289-298 Real-Time Selective Scene Transfer....Pages 299-308 Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Virtual Shopping System....Pages 309-318 Digital Virtual Human Based Distance Education System....Pages 319-327 Towards Incompletely Specified Process Support in SwinDeW – A Peer-to-Peer Based Workflow System....Pages 328-338 A Flexible Workflow Model Supporting Dynamic Selection....Pages 339-348 Temporal Logic Based Workflow Service Modeling and Its Application....Pages 349-358 Research on Cooperative Workflow Management Systems....Pages 359-367 Effective Elements of Integrated Software Development Process Supported Platform....Pages 368-377 Hierarchical Timed Colored Petri Nets Based Product Development Process Modeling....Pages 378-387 An Intelligent Petri Nets Model Based on Competitive Neural Network....Pages 388-397 An Automatic Coverage Analysis for SystemC Using UML and Aspect-Oriented Technology....Pages 398-405 Optimistic Locking Concurrency Control Scheme for Collaborative Editing System Based on Relative Position....Pages 406-416 Research on Content-Based Text Retrieval and Collaborative Filtering in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks....Pages 417-426 On the Stochastic Overlay Simulation Network....Pages 427-436 Applying Semiotic Analysis to the Design and Modeling of Distributed Multimedia Systems....Pages 437-447 A Rapid Inducing Solid Model Towards Web-Based Interactive Design....Pages 448-456 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2004, held in Xiamen, China, in September 2004.

The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions during at least two rounds of reviewing and improvement. They contain expanded versions of the papers presented at the conference and are organized in topical sections on CSCW techniques and methods, agents and multi-agent systems, ontology and knowledge management, collaborative design and manufacturing, and enterprise collaboration, virtual reality and applications, workflows, and other related approaches and applications.