AN INTEGRATED CONTEXT MODEL FOR THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON DESIGN REUSE

DS 48: Proceedings DESIGN 2008, the 10th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Year: 2008
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Eckstein, R.; Henrich, A.
Section: Knowledge intensive design
Page(s): 761 - 768

Abstract

Todays product development is characterized by cutting down product development costs and times which can be accomplished by leveraging reuse of existing knowledge in an enterprise. We propose a search approach, that incorporates a comprehensive description of the user and the document context. This description of the user leads to a better understanding of the information need. We suggest the consideration of domain specific measures to enable a higher precision in searching. The perspective behind this idea is that a user’s information need is characterized by a user query and his current context. The retrieved documents are represented by their content and the document context – the creation phase or the degree of maturity for example.

Keywords: product development, context, design reuse, information retrieval, knowledge management

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