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Effective and Considerate Change Notifications in Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects

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In multidisciplinary engineering projects the effective and considerate propagation of changes is essential to ensure a consistent view of the project and to minimize defects and risks. To achieve this, the changes coming from one discipline need to be communicated and coordinated with the participants of the disciplines where those changes are relevant. In this paper, we introduce a user-centric context-adaptive notification manager (UCAN), which makes use of modelling techniques at design and runtime to derive effective change notifications that are delivered in a considerate manner. We present a prototype implementation of UCAN based on industry use cases and discuss its benefits and limitations based on the feedback from industry partner domain experts.

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    OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL)—www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/

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    SPARQL—http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

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    Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL)—http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/

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  1. Christian Doppler Laboratory for Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems, Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Estefanía Serral, Richard Mordinyi & Stefan Biffl

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  1. Dept of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    María José Escalona

  2. IWT2 Research Group FIDETIA, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Gustavo Aragón

  3. Monash University, Caaulfield East, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  4. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

  5. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  6. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Christoph Schneider

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Serral, E., Mordinyi, R., Biffl, S. (2014). Effective and Considerate Change Notifications in Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects. In: José Escalona, M., Aragón, G., Linger, H., Lang, M., Barry, C., Schneider, C. (eds) Information System Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_36

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