Conflicts Mitigation in Collaborative Design
Résumé
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 resolution strategies. Our approach proposes a crossed classification
of conflict causes and the correspondent mitigation strategies and
implements this classification in order to enable conflict detection in the earlier
phases of the design process. Emphasis is put on capture and use of design
rationale and knowledge to help conflict mitigation. Based on this approach, a
conflict mitigation module integrated in an advanced architecture for concurrent
design and manufacturing is presented. A case study on the design of an electric
connector illustrates the use of this module.