Title :
An awareness mechanism for enhancing cooperation in design teams
Author :
Tacla, Cesar Augusto ; Enembreck, Fabrício
Author_Institution :
Centro Fed. de Educaqao Tecnologica do Parana, Brazil
Abstract :
This article concerns a particular aspect of knowledge management (KM) in design teams: the awareness. It consists in keeping the members of a team conscious about the activities of their colleagues. We present a mechanism to determine the interest center of a user built from the traces of his/her computer operations (e.g. documents, Web pages). Each user is notified of similar interest centers thanks to a society of agents. We discuss in this article the construction of the centers of interest and the notification protocol.
Keywords :
design engineering; groupware; knowledge management; multi-agent systems; project management; protocols; team working; Web pages; awareness mechanism; design teams; knowledge management; notification protocol; project memory; Collaborative work; Documentation; Electronic mail; Knowledge management; Ontologies; Protocols; Research and development; Textile industry; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-84600-002-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194310
