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A Discourse Model, including a structure and a process, is developed that provides software support for collaborative engineering design. Components of the structure include a workspace that incorporates frames, constraints, semantic networks, libraries of sharable design objects, agents, and a Virtual Workspace Language. Components of the process include procedures for identifying agent interest sets, applying state transformations to the design model, switching design contexts, identifying conflicts between designers, and tracking resolved conflicts. The model is implementation-independent and applicable to many research and commercial design environments currently available. An example scenario is provided in the Architecture/ Engineering/ Construction domain that illustrates collaboration during the conceptual design of a fire station.
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Case, M.P., Lu, S.CY. (1999). A discourse model for collaborative design. In: Baskin, A.B., Kovács, G., Jacucci, G. (eds) Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design. PROLAMAT 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35357-9_12
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