{"title":"Reliable information service for Internet computer conferencing","authors":"H. Abdel-Wahab","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263055","url":null,"abstract":"The Conferencing Information Service (CIS) described is developed to provide reliable information to users about ongoing computer conferences throughout the Internet. CIS is composed of three major components: the information daemon (ID), to store and retrieve information about the ongoing conferences in the Internet; the conference announcer (CA), to broadcast conference information to the IDs; the user interface (UI), to retrieve the current conference information from the IDs, to display the retrieved information to the user in an X-window based interface, and to allow the users to start a new conference or join a selected ongoing conference.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122957745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AgentX: an environment for coordinating distributed problem solving in product development","authors":"Jim Davis, S. Kannapan","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263058","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes AgentX, a program that facilitates distributed problem solving in the context of a parametric design process. The 'AgentX' refers to computer programs that act on behalf of people, encapsulating design problem-solving knowledge in the form of constraints on parameters. The 'X' designates the capabilities to coordinate design process by controlling the sequence of agent operation and resolving conflicts by axiomatic negotiation.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115738313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infrastructure support for multimedia communications: a survey","authors":"Qiang Lin, K. Srinivas","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263052","url":null,"abstract":"The survey provides a concise review of the current progress achieved in the field of multimedia computing. It covers properties of multimedia, switching and compression standards, communication support, synchronization support, operating system support, and discussion on possible future research.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115954515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. M. Karandikar, M. E. Fotta, M. Lawson, R. T. Wood
{"title":"Assessing organizational readiness for implementing concurrent engineering practices and collaborative technologies","authors":"H. M. Karandikar, M. E. Fotta, M. Lawson, R. T. Wood","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263060","url":null,"abstract":"The barriers to concurrent engineering (CE) are cultural, organizational, and technological in nature. A successful implementation of CE requires that these barriers be identified up-front. The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) has developed a model, a measurement tool, and a methodology-the Readiness Assessment for Concurrent Engineering (RACE)-to assist CE implementors in identifying the barriers and prioritizing implementation actions. The authors discuss the readiness model, the process, and the questionnaire associated with RACE. They also identify some open issues concerned with conducting a readiness assessment and interpreting the results. Finally, the concept for a computer-based tool for readiness assessment is described.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116554900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Guimarães, Paulo T. Silva, J. T. Santos, A. Siemaszko
{"title":"MObViews: a multiuser worksheet for a mechanical engineering environment","authors":"N. Guimarães, Paulo T. Silva, J. T. Santos, A. Siemaszko","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263051","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an interactive tool, classified as a multiuser worksheet. The worksheet is integrated in a more general environment to support design and project in the domain of mechanical engineering. The worksheet serves two purposes: it supports flexible interaction with engineering data produced and consumed by components of a project support environment (geometric modeling, structural analysis, reliability analysis, etc.); and it supports multiuser interaction, allowing group activity and concurrency in the mechanical engineering design process. The design and implementation of the worksheet follows the object oriented approach and assumes the support if a shared window system. the paper describes the worksheet's design and emphasizes the relations between the notions of hierarchy and public/private workspaces, as well as the control of the sharing and concurrency aspects of a multiuser interactive system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127441325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Reddy, V. Jagannathan, K. Srinivas, R. Karinthi, S. Reddy, C. Gollapudy, S. Friedman
{"title":"ARTEMIS: a research testbed for collaborative health care informatics","authors":"R. Reddy, V. Jagannathan, K. Srinivas, R. Karinthi, S. Reddy, C. Gollapudy, S. Friedman","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263063","url":null,"abstract":"Patient centred healthcare delivery is an inherently collaborative and information-intensive process. It involves a wide range of individuals and organizations with different roles. The key to cost reduction and quality improvement in health care is effective management of this collaborative process. The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) developed a number of key technologies to enable collaborative processes. These technologies, integrated into an open collaborative environment, is currently being customized to create a research testbed, ARTEMIS, that addresses all aspects of patient-care life-cycle. ARTEMIS will equip each provider with his own personal assistant-a customized role-oriented workstation connected to his own information world through an information bus. With ARTEMIS, the users will be able to process multimedia patient-care information: look-up, compute, communicate, archive and collaborate.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128329486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concurrent engineering information systems","authors":"F. Wilson, John N. Wilson","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263044","url":null,"abstract":"The paper considers how information systems may provide critical benefits to concurrent engineering practice and identifies some of the technical and organizational difficulties that may exist when information is dispersed, inconsistent, incompatible or inaccessible between the functional areas involved within a concurrent engineering partnership.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121725192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model based information access","authors":"V. Jagannathan, R. Karinthi, G. Almási","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263048","url":null,"abstract":"The engineering data of a large enterprise is typically distributed over a wide area and archived in a variety of databases and file systems. Access to such information is crucial to a team member, particularly in a concurrent engineering setting. However, this is not easy, because (1) a model of the relevant information is not available, and (2) there is no simple way to access the information without being knowledgeable about various computer data formats, file systems, and networks. The authors have developed a system called the Information Sharing System (ISS) to enable access to diverse and distributed information within a corporation. Such data could be stored in different repositories such as databases and file systems including those that contain multiple media. The paper describes the methodology fo the ISS, the details of the implementation nd extensions planned for the future.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"22 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120840909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Toye, M. Cutkosky, L. Leifer, J. M. Tenenbaum, J. Glicksman
{"title":"SHARE: a methodology and environment for collaborative production development","authors":"G. Toye, M. Cutkosky, L. Leifer, J. M. Tenenbaum, J. Glicksman","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263065","url":null,"abstract":"The SHARE project seeks to apply information technologies in helping design teams gather, organize, reaccess, and communicate both informal and formal design information to establish a 'shared understanding' of the design and design process. The paper presents the visions of SHARE, along with the research and strategies undertaken to build an infrastructure toward its realization. A preliminary prototype environment is being used by designers working on a variety of industry sponsored design projects. This testbed continues to inform and guide the development of NoteMail, MovieMail, and Xshare, as well other components of the next generation SHARE environment that will help distributed design teams work together more effectively.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123781029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Craighill, M. Connell, R. Lang, K. Skinner, Martin W. Fong, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
{"title":"Process history capture in a concurrent engineering collaboration environment","authors":"E. Craighill, M. Connell, R. Lang, K. Skinner, Martin W. Fong, J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves","doi":"10.1109/ENABL.1993.263056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ENABL.1993.263056","url":null,"abstract":"One method of speeding up traditional engineering activities is by introducing parallel development paths. Although cycle time is reduced, coordination and project documentation become more difficult and are further exacerbated by synchronous collaboration. These needs can be addressed by capturing, accessing, and reusing knowledge consisting of the design, together with its rationale and development history. Successful capturing of design knowledge includes these elements and answers to several questions: What is the design? How was the design achieved? Why were choices made? The paper describes how to capture the history of the informal phase of the specification and design process using the Collaborative Environment for Concurrent Engineering Design (CECED).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":421053,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies@m_Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"92 31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128884067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}