Collaborative systems engineering: Issues & challenges

Contact and Collaboration Context Model

“…Wouters, Creff, Bella and Koudri [23] identify four prerequisites for successful collaboration: "1) A shared objective between involved stakeholders; 2) A synchronization of actions; 3) An exchange of information, between the right people, at the right time; 4) A complementarity between skills. "…”

“…The SLMC (Briggs et al [4]) and the prerequisites proposed by Wouters, Creff, Bella and Koudri [23] aim to make collaboration as successful as possible by identifying critical elements. These two works can be used to qualify a successful collaboration or not.…”

“…How do they evolve during collaboration? Establishing a profile of actors in collaboration is thus connected to the fourth pre-requisite of Wouters, Creff, Bella and Koudri [23]. Such a profile would make it possible to take other characteristics into consideration that could intervene to promote successful collaboration.…”

Towards Semantic-Aware Collaborations in Systems Engineering

“…As summed-up in [1], Collaborative Engineering is concerned with various fields, such as the technological, social, socio-technical, decisions making, and negotiation ones. In the context of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), [2] pointed out some prerequisites for a successful collaboration. One of them is: the exchange of relevant information between the right people at the right time.…”

“…Although the capture and sharing of the denotation is necessary, it is not sufficient. The recipient of the information still need to relate the concepts from the sender's denotation to his own concepts [2]. We argue in this paper that a possible way to reduce the risk of misinterpretation, and thus to improve the quality of the collaborations during the design of a complex system, is to support the meaningful exchange of engineering data at the system level.…”