The increasing complexity of engineering activities emphasises the need to enhance software support for design team collaboration and improve the management of design process dynamics, especially in critical situations. Thus, this paper proposes a new approach in which a set of Coloured Petri Nets (CPNs) enable a practical implementation of design activities ontology by modelling rules and relationships simultaneously with the instantiation of taxonomy elements. The development of the proposed model is based on an in-depth analysis of several long-lasting development projects in a large industrial company and three case studies on designers’ collaboration. To facilitate the implementation of ontology models into industrial practice, this work focuses on the issues of interoperability between design support systems and ontology models. The proposed method has significant potential to provide real-time updating and propagation of design information in teamwork.

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使用彩色 Petri 网建模的工程设计协作和推理活动模式

工程活动日益复杂，强调需要加强对设计团队协作的软件支持，并改进设计过程动态的管理，尤其是在危急情况下。因此，本文提出了一种新方法，其中一组彩色 Petri 网 (CPN) 通过在分类元素的实例化的同时对规则和关系进行建模来实现设计活动本体的实际实现。拟议模型的开发基于对一家大型工业公司的几个长期开发项目的深入分析和三个关于设计师合作的案例研究。为了促进本体模型在工业实践中的实施，这项工作侧重于设计支持系统和本体模型之间的互操作性问题。