Best paper at ECEC'2012 conference

01 octobre 2012

Article "A Semantic Adaptive Framework for Collaborative System" by Aymen Kamoun, Saïd Tazi et Khalil Drira

Best paper, ECEC'2012, 18-20 April, 2012 

Abstract

The collaboration environments are context sensitive; they may be subject of modification whenever parameters of use change. Dynamic adaptation is a key issue to enable continuity of collaboration and communication.

In this context, the collaborative development of products provides new challenges in distributed systems. It requires continuous communication and exchanges between teams of collaborators having different roles and using different tools. A global model of collaboration is necessary to guarantee the quality of communication and to ensure adaptability and interoperability between tools whatever may happen. In this paper, we present a framework for collaborative model-based services development that supports a semantic adaptation model. This framework enables a dynamic deployment of component that is triggered by the change of collaboration context such as the arrival/absence or change of roles and tasks of actors. In this article, the implementation of the framework and its conceptual model are presented. A test case for collaborative software development has been developed to validate the framework.

ECEC'2012The conference aim of the 19th annual European Concurrent Engineering Conference, ECEC'2012 is to provide European Researchers with a forum, where they can discuss the latest developments linked to concurrent engineering focused on European research projects. ECEC'2012 aims to identify the progress that has been made in Concurrent Engineering/Lean Manufacturing over the last year. A special focus of the ECEC'2012 will be the influence of Digital Direct Manufacturing, also known as additive manufacturing and the new directions in Lean Manufacturing.

Furthermore, ECEC'2012 will feature a special workshop on Factory Planning and Control for Small and Medium sized Enterprises organized by the Polytechnic Institute of Castillo Branco in Portugal. The ECEC helps the dissemination of information and exploitation of results from the research and technical development and provides a forum for the exchange of experiences in developing and implementing CE based solutions across the wide spectrum of manufacturing and engineering industries. The conference is targeted at industrial enterprises, industrial associations, universities and research institutes.