This book presents latest thinking and activities and future trends in Industrial Knowledge Management at the micro-level. Knowledge Management is about capture and reuse of knowledge at the operational, shopfloor and designer level. Therefore, the book discusses how to deliver knowledge...

In today’s networked economy, strategic business partnerships and outsourcing has become the dominantparadigm where companies focus on core competencies and skills, as creative design, manufacturing, orselling. However, achieving seamless interoperability is an ongoing challenge these networks...

This paper presents a generic conceptual model of risk evaluation in order to manage the risk throughrelated constraints and variables under a multi-agent collaborative design environment. Initially, a hierarchyconstraint network is developed to mapping constraints and variables. Then, an...