An Inner-Enterprise Wiki System (IWkS) Integrated with an Expert Finding Mechanism for Lesson-Learned Knowledge Accumulation in Product Design

Part 4: Data Analysis and Information RetrievalInternational audienceIn the process of product design, it is usually difficult for enterprises to timely and effectively accumulate lesson-learned knowledge, which should be revised several rounds by appropriate experts in a cooperative, multidisciplinary team to make sure of its accuracy and integrity. This study proposes a model of an inner-enterprise wiki system (IWkS) integrated with an expert finding framework to support the accumulation of lesson-learned knowledge in product design. By combining wiki’ characteristics, the expert finding framework considers both users’ expertise relevance, and social importance in IWkS. To validate our expert finding approach, some experiments are done in a famous ship-building company in China. Meanwhile, a working scenario of the IWkS integrated with an expert finding framework for knowledge accumulation is shown

Changing Paradigms : Designing for a Sustainable Future

Changing Paradigms: designing for a sustainable future is intended for designers, design students and design educators, who want to understand why and how to integrate Sustainability into design education and practice. It consists of five parts; Part One presents why we must design for a sustainable future, Part Two describes how to design for a sustainable future, Part Three presents student design projects exemplifying sustainable design, Part Four is a glossary of 120 terms and concepts about Sustainability and design, and finally, Part Five includes three appendices: The Cumulus Kyoto Design Declaration, and guidelines on how to green both school campuses and conferences. This book has been edited by Peter Stebbing and Ursula Tischner, who have invited internationally renown experts to contribute chapters. Changing Paradigms offers a comprehensive survey of essential knowledge for designers and other creative professions to shift their focus to the new design paradigm for sustainable production, consumption, and life styles