In Post - Proceedings of the IEEE Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises ( CDR - TR # 19930507 ) 1 SHARE : A Methodology and Environment for CollaborativeProduct

of the IEEE Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises ( CDR - TR # 19930507 ) 1 SHARE : A Methodology and Environment for CollaborativeProduct

The SHARE project seeks to apply information technologies in helping design teams gather, organize, re-access, and communicate both informal and formal design information to establish a \shared understand-ing\ of the design and design process. This paper presents the visions of SHARE, along with the research and strategies undertaken to build an infrastructure toward its realization. A prelimin...

Team-Based Design: Collaboration across Time and Space

Rapid advances in mobile computing and wireless communication present an opportunity for fundamental changes in engineering education, particularly for teambased courses in which collaborative learning is the dominant learning mode. This talk describes a collaborative, multi-disciplinary design course and a suite of collaboration tools called Handy Andy, to support team based design. The curren...

Measurement and Comparison of Industrial Infrastructure of SMEs among Iranian Provinces

The creation of small manufacturing enterprises is considered by many governments and donor agencies, as the key to economic and social development in countries regardless of development level. Furthermore, review of the literature show evidence that SMEs are understood as a source of technology development. At the same time they are vulnerable to a number of restrictions such as access to fina...

25th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2016, Paris, France, June 13-15, 2016

Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior: Concepts and Theories

Background and Aim: Collaborative information seeking is an interaction among members of a group who purposefully try to access and share joint information. Although collaboration is a key component of information seeking behavior, but most of the studies in this area are focused on individual information seeking behavior and collaborative aspects are considered much less. As a result, there is...