Chapter 2: Business issues

Title: Coupling product development and project planning with constraint: a prospective work

Author(s): Elise Vareilles, Michel Aldanondo, Yosra Lahmar, Claude Baron, Laurent Geneste, Marc Zolghadri

Address: CGI – EMAC, Albi – France | CGI – EMAC, Albi – France | CGI – EMAC, Albi – France | LESIA – INSAT, Toulouse – France | LGP – ENIT, Tarbes – France, LAPS – UBX-1, Bordeaux – France

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 137 - 146

Abstract/Summary: This communication is a prospective work trying to gather aiding tools relevant to product development and project planning. For each domain and associated tool, we show how the aiding process can be considered as a constraint satisfaction problem. We then propose to link the two domains in order to permit simultaneously on both problems constraint filtering and optimisation. The paper is organized as follows. After a short introduction, the second section addresses product development, project planning and constraintbased approaches. The presentation of the principle of co-operation is then described. The last section presents two propositions relevant to the cooperation principle between product development and project planning. Several examples illustrate the propositions.

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