New Book on Distributed Collaborative Engineering

Distributed and Integrated Collaborative Engineering Design 
by Ram D. Sriram
Paperback: 796 pages 
Publisher: Sarven Publishers;  (December 23, 2002) 
ISBN: 0972506403 

Currently available at: www.amazon.com 
List Price:   $89.95  
Edition: Paperback 

Book Description
The increasing complexity of engineering artifacts and the globalization of 
product development necessitates a distributed and collaborative engineering 
environment for design and manufacture. The DICE (Distributed and Integrated 
Collaborative Engineering Environment) project at MIT was one of the first 
attempts in developing a set of tools and techniques for a computer supported 
collaborative engineering environment. This book provides an in-depth 
description of various DICE components. Topics include: 1) The engineering 
process; 2) Geometric modeling, including non-manifold modeling; 3) Management 
of long duration design transactions; 4) Constraint management for encoding 
design relationships; 5) Media synchronization for collaborative work; 6) 
Design knowledge representation and problem solving; 7) Representation for 
sharing design information; 8) Design rationale evolution and conflict 
mitigation; 9) Organizational issues, including teams, outsourcing, and 
workflow; and !
 
 10) Object-oriented concepts and implementation details. 

About the Author
Ram D. Sriram is currently leading the Design and Process Group in the 
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, MEL, at the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to joining NIST he was on the 
engineering faculty at MIT. Sriram has authored or co-authored over 140 
publications, including several books. His previous book entitled Intelligent 
Systems for Engineering: A Knowledge-based Approach was published by Springer 
Verlag in 1997. 

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