Computer-Aided Cooperative Product Development

A selection of papers presented at the MIT-JSME Workshop on Cooperative Product Development, organized into six categories: frameworks, organizational issues, negotiation techniques, transaction management, design methods, and visualization techniques.

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Next-Cut: A second generation framework for concurrent engineering.- A blackboard scheme for cooperative problem-solving by human experts.- An object-oriented framework for collaborative engineering design.- Creativity Support System for concurrent product design.- Product abstraction evolution by active process facilitators.- A model integration framework for cooperative design.- Towards a framework for concurrent design.- Cooperation in aircraft design.- Managing the VLSI design process.- Towards a shared computational environment for engineering design.- Organizing the tasks in complex design projects.- Knowledge-based conflict resolution for cooperation among expert agents.- Cooperative negotiation in concurrent engineering design.- Evaluating alternate connection designs through multiagent negotiation.- Transaction management in design databases.- A model of concurrent, cooperating transactions in an object-oriented database.- A prototype of feature-based design for assembly.- Feature-based design for manufacturability critique in concurrent engineering.- Intelligent suggestive CAD systems research overview.- A method towards design intelligence modeling.- Simultaneous CAE system for reducing engine radiated noise study of a method for calculating sound-absorbing material characteristics using radiated noise contribution factor analysis -.- Expert R&M design synthesis an enabling technology for concurrent engineering.- An artificial intelligence approach to efficient fusion first wall design.- An object-oriented design tool toward CIM for shipbuilding.- Using design history systems for technology transfer.- ThingWorld: A multibody simulation system with low computational complexity.- A study on visualization of control software design.- Coded shaperepresentation and its application to mechanical and structural design.