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This paper presents a Product Data Management (PDM) based infrastructure with a coordination agent for distributed collaborative design. The proposed approach exploits applications and resources from PDM systems as well as web platforms, and provides a solution for both heterogeneous PDM systems integration and VE-oriented collaborative product development. The proposed coordination agent (CA) helps ensure the data consistency and secure collaboration among remote sites. Such an approach shows some advantages over the peer-peer interaction in feasibility, efficiency and reconfigurability. Because of the introduction of CA, the resulting collaborative workspaces are prospective to be further developed to interact with other agent-oriented systems for VE.
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Li, Y., Shen, W. (2002). A PDM-Based VE-Oriented Infrastructure for Distributed Collaborative Design. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises. PRO-VE 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 85. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35585-6_37
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