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Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Design explores the potential of computer technologies to help cooperative design. It requires more efficient technologies of communications and reusing knowledge in design process. This paper looks at CSCW in Design on the Semantic Web and shows how the Semantic Web technologies may improve the current design process. It describes using the Semantic Web technologies to represent design knowledge in a unified and formal form that can be understood by both people and machines and shows how this improve all kinds of communication processes in cooperative design. We study the great advantage of sharing and reusing design knowledge on the Semantic Web. This is very helpful in design process, and may completely change the current way of design.
This work was supported in part by the Young Scientist’s Fund of NSFC (60303024), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (60073012), National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (2002CB312000), National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK2001004), Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering in Wuhan University, and Opening Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Computer Information Processing Technology in Soochow University.
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Kang, D., Xu, B., Lu, J., Zhang, Y. (2004). CSCW in Design on the Semantic Web. In: Li, M., Sun, XH., Deng, Q., Ni, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing. GCC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3033. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24680-0_119
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