This paper presents an ontology-based approach to resolve conflicts in collaborative design. In a collaborative design environment, achieving a global design of a product implies the proposed model is realisable and acceptable to all participants involved in the design project. Whenever this not happens we have a conflicting situation. The work presented here is based on the use of ontology modelling (OWL) to represent knowledge and, like that, to enable a reasoning process to be done. The results of this reasoning, the conflicting axioms detected, are used as starting point to a conflict resolution process. First, an automatic approach is tried. In case of failure, the next step is the direct interaction among the project participants, i.e., negotiation and mediation. A small electrical connector was taken as example to illustrate our approach. © 2008 Springer-Verlag London Limited.
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Dutra, M., Ghodous, P., & Gonçalves, R. (2008). Resolving collaborative design conflicts through an ontology-based approach. In Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, CE 2008 (pp. 11–19). Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-972-1_2
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