Chapter 1: Early Stage Issues

Title: An anticipated notification scheme to ensure coherency of a collaborative design framework

Author(s): M. Sabeur Bettaieb, M. Frederic Noel

Address: VRL-KCiP European Network of Excellence Grenoble University-INPG L3S, 1029, Rue de la piscine, BP53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9 | VRL-KCiP European Network of Excellence Grenoble University-INPG L3S, 1029, Rue de la piscine, BP53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2006 pp. 74 - 85

Abstract/Summary: This paper presents a generic framework to schedule business models synchronisation. Previous works about collaborative environment focus on the development of a model shared by every designer through an Internet like connection. By increasing the shared model topics, these works tend to a complete integrated PLM models. However, current practise still involves a huge set of heterogeneous tools. Every design expert uses his own business modeller and analysis tool. Moreover, he defines product evolutions on asynchronous mode. Assuming that a common model is shared by every designers, experts results must be synchronised before to change the common model to preserve a global agreement. This paper describes various options for the synchronization process and proposes a generic framework providing every synchronisation schemes. The main ideas are: 1). to anticipate the change notification towards interested designers without changing the shared model and 2). to assist the selection of the right time when designer results must be synchronised.

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