This paper presents a state of the art review of existing research, projects, and applications
in the domain of collaborative conceptual design, based on the Internet and Web …

Collaborative engineering is the practical application of collaboration sciences to the
engineering domain. In today's highly connected technology-driven economy, the …

The paper deals with the development of an integrated supplier selection and negotiation
process for multiple parts/materials procurement. The main objective is to integrate …

It is characteristic of collaborative engineering design that precedence relationships among
design activities contain information flow conflicts. Due to multi-actors interaction, conflicts …

Product family design (PFD) has been traditionally tackled as a single-level multi-objective
optimization problem. This paper reveals a complex type of leader-follower joint optimization …

Fundamental in engineering design is the notion that collaboration is useful to reduce total
project development time and increase design quality. A critical element of collaborative …

Conflict management is an unavoidable stage of the collaborative design process. We
assume that classifying conflict causes can help conflict prevention as well as detection and …

Consensus can be used for working out an agreement during design conflict resolution. This
paper introduces an approach for consensus modelling in collaborative and distributed …

When multiple robots are supposed to operate together, coordination and communication
issues arise.“Which robot should execute which task?” is the key question of the multi-robot …

In this paper, we present a condensed survey of multi-agent systems, with special emphasis
on cooperation coordination, conflict resolution and closely related issues; issues that are …