Coping with conflict in concurrent design environment

Abstract

In concurrent design the design teams participating in a project have different perspectives, and those differences lead to conflicting decisions. The resolution model, mediator, proposed in this work provides system-mediated resolution to optimize the design process in general. This paper introduces the core concept of the mediator, which produces a resolution network from a given constraint network and determines the most optimistic resolution in terms of satisfying overall constraints based on rational reasoning.