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Articulation and Sharing

• f Distributed Design Project

and Process Knowledge

a short paper

Vadim Ermolayev Frank Dengler Eyck Jentzsch Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke Tangier, Morocco, September 16, 2010

4-th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing

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Agenda Agenda

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Accent pretty much on what is not in the paper …

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Research in the context of ACTIVE IP

• Case Study – focus on performance management (informal

processes)

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Approach and Prototype Architecture

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Implementation Results

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Knowledge Representation

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Summary

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ACTIVE Integrated Project (FP7) ACTIVE Integrated Project (FP7)

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Aim:

• Increasing the productivity
• f knowledge workers in a

pro-active, contextualized, yet easy and unobtrusive way

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Approach:

• Convert tacit and unshared

knowledge – the "hidden intelligence" of enterprises – into transferable, interoperable and actionable knowledge to support seamless collaboration and to enable problem solving

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Focus:

• Productivity in informal

processes

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ACTIVE: Informal Processes ACTIVE: Informal Processes

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Informal processes are carried

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by knowledge workers with their skills, experience and knowledge,

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to perform difficult tasks which require complex, informal decisions among multiple possible strategies to fulfill specific goals

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In contrast to business processes which are formal, standardized, and repeatable, knowledge processes are

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not even written down, let alone denoted formally, vary from person to person to achieve the same

• bjective, and

are

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not repeatable

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Knowledge workers create informal processes

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the fly in many situations of their daily work

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A leader on the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Market

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Customers:

• Systems companies
• Semiconductor companies
• Design/supply chain partners

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Focus:

• In Devel

Development

• pment
• electronic systems

and Integrated Circuits (IC’s)

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Services rvices: improving the productivity

• f our customers’

design environments

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Cadence Global Services

Cadence Design Systems Cadence Design Systems

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Informal Processes in MIC Design Informal Processes in MIC Design

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erh

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Performance Management Performance Management

• an Informal Process

Performance Management (Design Project)

Assessment Analysis Decision Action

Metrics

Design System (Design Project Environment)

Performance (Design Project)

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Performance Management Performance Management

• an Informal Process

Performance Management (Design Project)

Assessment Analysis Decision Action

Metrics

Design System (Design Project Environment)

Performance (Design Project)

Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Representation Knowledge Articulation and Sharing

• Cadence

ProjectNavigator DP execution simulation MAS

PSI PSI

• Process Mining Service
• AKWS Server

ACTIVE ACTIVE

• DP Visualizer

ACTIVE ACTIVE

• Cadence

Knowledgebase

PSI PSI

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Prototype Architecture Prototype Architecture

DP Monitor and Data Collector EU Dataset

Design Process

Temporal Probabilistic Process Model

Cadence Knowledgebase

PSI

Process Mining Service AKWS Server US Dataset

ACTIVE Front-end Design Environment (EU) Design Process Design Environment (US)

DP Monitor and Data Collector

Real World

DP Execution Instances

Cadence ProjectNavigator DP execution simulation MAS Collaborative Platform (SMW) DP Visualizer

Project Map

MO

Work Breakdown Structure

MO

Real World

Develop Product Structure Select Methodology Compose Development Team Generate WBS

ACTIVE Back-end Cadence Front-end Cadence Back-end Informal Processes in DP Planning

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Develop Product Structure Develop Product Structure

Knowledge Articulation and Sharing in DP Visualize Visualizer

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Visualization

• Links to:

 Processes  Tools  Actors

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Discussion

• Pro-con

summaries

• Discussion

threads

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LiveNetLife

• Page sharing

and chats

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Select Development Methodology Select Development Methodology

and Bind it to the Product Structure

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erhb Generic Product-Bound

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Develop Work Breakdown Structure Develop Work Breakdown Structure

and Monitor Project Execution

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dfgn

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Knowledge Representation Knowledge Representation

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PSI Suite of Ontologies v.2.3

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OWL-DL

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http://isrg.kit.znu.edu.ua/ontodocwiki/index.php/PSI_Suite_of_Ontologies

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KR: PSI-ULO - KR: PSI-ULO - Process Context rocess Context

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weg

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KR: PSI-Core Process Ontology KR: PSI-Core Process Ontology

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Summary Summary

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Tacit (and distributed) knowledge acquisition articulation and sharing in MIC Engineering Design Projects

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Back-End: ACTIVE Knowledge WorkSpace

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Front-End: ACTIVE Design Project Visualizer

• Paper –

Demonstrator Prototype

• Currently –

Fully Functional Prototype

 E.g. (front-end) Gantt chart visualization for WBS, execution monitoring, …

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Planned future work (short term):

• Validation with industrial users

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Questions Please … Questions Please …