Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I: 8th International Conference, CSCWD 2004, Xiamen, China, May 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers [Paperback]

The design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams using multiple commercial and non-commercial engineering tools such as CAD tools, modeling, simulation and optimization software, engineering databases, and knowledge-based systems. Individuals or individual groups of multidisciplinary design teams usually work in parallel and separately with various engineering tools, which are located on different sites, often for quite a long time. At any moment, individual members may be working on different versions of a design or viewing the design from various perspectives, at different levels of detail. In order to meet these requirements, it is necessary to have effective and efficient collaborative design environments. These environments should not only automate individual tasks, in the manner of traditional computer-aided engineering tools, but also enable individual members to share information, collaborate and coordinate their activities within the context of a design project. CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) in design is concerned with the development of such environments.CSCW Techniques and Methods.- Vega Information Grid for Collaborative Computing.- Physical Object Icons Buttons Gesture (PIBG): A New Interaction Paradigm with Pen.- A Novel Method of QoS Based Resource Management and Trust Based Task Scheduling.- Learning to Plan the Collaborative Design Process.- Groupware System Design and the Context Concept.- Grid Authorization Management Oriented to Large-Scale Collaborative Computing.- Research on Network Performance Measurement Based on SNMP.- Concepts, Model and Framework of Cooperative Software Engineering.- An Algorithm for Cooperative Learning of Bayesian Network Structure from Data.- Non-violative User Profiling Approach for Website Design Improvement.- Agents and Multi-agent Systems.- Generative Design in an Agent Based Collaborative Design System.- Similarity Based Agents for Design.- SemantilÃd