Reducing Impediments to Collaboration in a Virtual Design World
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Author(s)
Seshasai, Satwik
Gupta, Amar
Sainath, Tara
Date Issued
September 25, 2002
Series/Report no.
MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4344-02
Abstract
This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to
reducing impediments to collaboration in a
distributed environment. A major impediment to
such collaboration is the issue of communications -
clearly and efficiently expressing the desires of every
stakeholder in the process, as well as the major
decisions and the rationale behind these decisions.
The approach described in this paper, embodied in
the MATE system, provides a framework for making
these decisions in the engineering design process, by
eliciting and capturing the goals and desires of every
stakeholder in the design process through utility and
expense functions. The system uses a four faceted
knowledge-based approach of knowledge acquisition,
discovery, management and repository to focus on
various areas of functionality to be used in the design
process. The MATE approach will be combined with
the SSPARCy approach, also developed in this group,
to address crucial applications that are today
contingent on geographical proximity to occur with
equal or superior effectiveness in a virtual world.
While this paper analyzes a situation involving
engineering design, the proposed knowledge-based
approach is equally applicable to collaboration in
business, healthcare, government, and other
environments.
Subjects
Collaboration
Design
Knowledge Based
Knowledge Dissemination
Knowledge Management
Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration
MATE
Persistent DSpace Link
