Design Management in CONCORD: Combining Transaction Management, Workflow Management and Cooperation Control

  • Authors:
  • Bernhard Mitschang;Theo Haerder;Norbert Ritter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RIDE '96 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE '96) Interoperability of Nontraditional Database Systems
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

In this paper, we want to define design management as an encompassing task supporting cooperative design processes entirely. In our opinion, this requirement can best be fulfilled by exploiting concepts from transaction management, workflow management and cooperation control. On one hand, each of these areas must be adapted to the field of design, on the other hand, the necessity of an adequate interplay of these components reveals multiple facets of interoperability.The CONCORD processing model faces all these problems and allows a straightforward mapping of the processing structures predominating in design and, thus, serves as a cooperative and interoperable processing model for CAD-frameworks, as e.g. the PRIMA framework, our testbed and prototype system. The major contribution of the CONCORD model is to enhance design-flow management by cooperation control facilities. Design-flow management controls design tool applications, the interplay of tools, and supports the user in fulfilling his/her local design goal. For that purpose, it covers both, transaction processing and workflow management. Cooperation control, in contrast, handles the interplay of collaborating designers or design tasks, respectively. In this paper, we report on the capabilities of the CONCORD processing model, thereby focusing on implementation aspects. The feasibility of already approved transaction concepts and workflow management as implementation basis is investigated and discussed by drawing relationships between design and transaction/workflow processing.