Exploring Communities of Practice for Product Family Engineering

Communities of Practice 1 a Brief Introduction What Are Communities of Practice?

What are communities of practice? Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniq...

Advanced Virtual Spaces for Collaboration in Product Modeling

Recently, information technology offers powerful solutions for classical but increasingly critical problems in product related engineering activities. During eighties and nineties product design, analysis and production engineering changed to description of engineering objects by modeling. Although intensive research produced methods in knowledge-based solutions for engineering, industrial mode...

Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action

Status and challenges of waste segregation in residential communities

Degradation of urban environment and health hazard is directly associated with the unscientific handling of Municipal solid waste of India. Urbanization also contribute intensify Municipal solid waste generation. Source segregation of solid waste not only the fact to converge but also possible in maximum resource recovery from the waste. Waste management is a problem due to the ineffective mana...

Unifying Product and Software Configuration

Research on computer-supported configuration of customizable products and services is currently carried out in two main communities: one community is mainly focused on the configuration of hardware artifacts, the other one is interested in configurable software systems and software product lines. Despite the significant overlap in research interests, the fields have mainly evolved in isolation ...