COFFEE - Collaborative Forgetting for Engineering Design
Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Start date : 01.01.2020
End date : 31.12.2022
Website: http://www.spp1921.de:8442/projekte/p8.html.de
Overall project details
Overall project
SPP 1921: Intentional Forgetting in Organisationen.Mechanismen des Vergessens als Anpassungsleistungen von Organisationen an eine Umweltstetig wachsender Informationsmengen
Project details
Scientific Abstract
Scientific Abstract
In engineering, product development is a collaborative activity, within reusing and adapting existing product models could decrease effort. While capturing design rationale is effective to deal with adaptations by teams, adaptation not only requires joint extension of models, as supported by existing methods for design rationale, but also removing what is no longer relevant or in conflict. Such Intentional Forgetting (IF) is difficult, as may affect assemblages of elements, should not over- or underdelete, and may require undoing. While EVOWIPE (our phase 1 project) has successfully tackled IF, project teams require methods for Collaborative Forgetting:
- Design Rationale and IF: Neither engineering nor computer science foresee methods to capture reasons for something that has been dismissed. Thus, team members might inadvertently reintroduce what was discarded before. How do we capture and represent design rationales behind forgetting?
- Varying Levels of Granularity and IF: Collaborative engineering must find compromises between different requirements. How can we establish compromise by partial forgetting?
- Cooperative Work and IF: Cooperative environments handle conflicts during model extension. Interwoven intricate forgetting is not supported in known cooperative environments. How can we concurrently add and remove designs and avoid inconsistencies?
