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• [P268] The Modelbase Method for Collaboration: Open and Scalable Accumulation and Reuse of Common Design Resources
  Author(s): Cheng Kent Hsu
  
  

  Abstract
  Common design resources" refers to a wide range of practices in the field of enterprise engineering. They represent, for example, software assets that companies manage in order to share them within the enterprise; and the business and system components that consulting firms reuse to gain productivity. However, they can also be tools and knowledge for collaboration among scientists and engineers. We focus in this paper on service science: the design of complex one-of-a-kind knowledge-intensive systems. The paper shows how a new method that accumulates reusable models (e.g., information, mathematical, and simulation) into randomly searchable repositories, and flexibly configures them for reuse in new applications, can be developed. Implementation design is provided for the new method, called Modelbase, to structure an open and scalable database of model resources and facilitate collaboration.

  
   

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