Efficient detection of inconsistencies in a multi-developer engineering environment

Instant distribution of consistency-relevant change information in a hierarchical multi-developer engineering environment

“…In previous works on the CEE (e.g., [23,88,90]), consistency checking was only handled on the latest version of the artifact storage. Our approach, on the other hand, can distinguish between different timestamps.…”

“…The advantages of utilizing a CEE have been demonstrated [23,88,90]. However, the downside of the current state of the art is that engineers do not understand their individual works in relation to the CEE -the "public" knowledge.…”

Conflict management techniques for model merging: a systematic mapping review

“…For example, A04 [53] presents the proactive conflict detection by continuously analyzing the change operations based on the consistency rules defined by the metamodel or system constraints. A24 [84] merges two modifications then checks the result against pre-defined graph constraints, while A61 [138] systematically reuses consistency checking rules that are written in OCL [154] for a specific context. -Change overlapping refers to techniques that discover conflicts by checking for contradicting changes that modify a model element in different ways or unknown equivalent changes that may be applied twice in the merged model.…”

“…-Manual refers to the method that completely delegate the resolution phase to the users, once a conflict is detected. For example, A01 [46] shows the conflicting operations to the user to manually reject or resolve them, while A61 [138] aborts the modifications and expects the user resolve them analogous to other versions. -Semi-automatic refers to techniques requiring interaction with the user for further information in the resolution phase while trying to solve conflicts automatically.…”

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

“…Using queries, data in AML can be checked regarding their conformance with AML specifications (Wimmer et al 2018). Moreover, a cloudbased integration and service platform called Design Space is proposed to integrate different artefacts (e.g., CAD, electrical models and code), which supports a distributed collaboration of multi-disciplinary engineers (Demuth et al 2015(Demuth et al , 2016. However, even when the information can be exchanged, the consistency of this model information still remains a challenge.…”