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Conflict management as part of an integrated exception handling approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Mark Klein
Mark Klein
Affiliation:
Information Systems Department, The Applied Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 30, State College, PA 16804–0030, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Collaborative design conflicts are an important type of process “exception,” that is, a real-life contingency such as a process change, execution error, or missed opportunity that leads to suboptimal performance of a collaborative process. This paper presents an integrated computational approach to collaborative process exception handling that avoids important weaknesses in current conflict management methods through the synergistic integration of conflict, workflow, and rationale technology. The approach is based upon an inclusive dependency language plus coordination services for dependency capture, process enactment, and exception handling. An initial implementation of this method called “iDCSS” is presented and challenges for future evolution of this technology are identified.

Keywords

Collaborative DesignConflictExceptionsRationaleWorkflow Processes
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Articles
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , September 1995 , pp. 259 - 267
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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