Elements of engineering design: an integrated approach
Elements of engineering design: an integrated approach
Modeling coordination in organizations and markets
Management Science
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Multi-agent coordination and cooperation in a distributed dynamic environment with limited resources: simulated air wars
Coordination techniques for distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Communications of the ACM
A catalog of agent coordination patterns
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Workflow Management Systems for Process Organizations
Workflow Management Systems for Process Organizations
Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Cooperative Multiagent Systems: A Personal View of the State of the Art
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Actor-Based Architecture for Customizing and Controlling Agent Ensembles
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Multi-Agent Coordination by Communication of Evaluations
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
Coordinating Management Activities in Distributed Software Development Projects
WETICE '98 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Enterprise Workflow Resource Management
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
Process Synchronization in Workflow Management Systems
SPDP '96 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP '96)
Procura: a project management model of concurrent planning and design
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Integrating planning and execution in software development processes
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
PACT-a software package to manage projects and coordinate people
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Position paper: resource management for complex distributed systems
WORDS '96 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS '96)
Coordination Assistance for Mixed Human and Computational Agents
Coordination Assistance for Mixed Human and Computational Agents
Predictive neural networks for gene expression data analysis
Neural Networks
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Within the engineering design community there is support for further research into the development of improved approaches to design management. Such research has lead to coordination being identified as an important and pervasive characteristic of many existing approaches (e.g., concurrent engineering and work-flow management). In this article, operational design coordination is proposed as the basis for an improved approach. This article also presents a novel integrated approach that incorporates the key elements of operational design coordination: coherence, communication, task management, resource management, schedule management, and real-time support. Through unifying these key elements, this approach provides an integrated means of managing design in a controlled and harmonious fashion. The approach also provides knowledge of the constituent techniques involved in operational design coordination, the interrelationships and dynamic interactions between them, and the knowledge used and maintained within and between them. The approach has been realized within an agent-oriented system called the Design Coordination System, which provides a systematic means of simultaneously coordinating operational management tasks and technical design tasks. To evaluate the approach, the system has been applied to an industrial case study involving the computational process of turbine blade design. This application has been shown to enable the structured undertaking of interrelated tasks by allocating and using resources of varying performance efficiency in an optimized fashion in accordance with dynamically derived schedules in a coherent, appropriate, and timely manner. This is achieved by managing tasks, their dependencies, and the information required to undertake them. In addition, the approach enables and sustains the continuous optimized use of resources by monitoring, forecasting, and disseminating resource performance efficiency. The approach facilitates dynamic scheduling and the subsequent enactment of the resulting schedules. Decision making for rescheduling is also incorporated within the approach such that it is only performed as and when appropriate. If rescheduling is performed, it is done so in parallel with task enactment such that resources continue to be utilized in an optimized manner.