Domain frameworks for ollaborative systems: Lessons learned from engineering maintenance management
Robert Reinke, Vincenzo D’Andrea, Arthur B. Baskin · 2007
The authors, working with civil engineers, have developed multiple software systems for different areas of civil infrastructure maintenance management. Over the last decade, those systems have evolved from stand-alone applications towards a loosely-coupled federation of collaborating systems. In this paper we outline the lessonslearned fromour experience with this evolution. Based on these lessonswe present fie general principles for constructing knowledge-rich systems that can collaborate with one another. These principles have two complementary themes: fostering emergence/evolution while capturing common structure. These themes form the basis of our approach to building loosely-coupled collaborative systems.