Conflict Resolution in Mechatronic Collaborative Design Using Category Theory

Due to the multitude of disciplines involved in mechatronic design, heterogeneous languages and expert models are used to describe the system from different domain-specific views. Despite their heterogeneity, these models are highly interrelated. As a consequence, conflicts among expert models are likely to occur. In order to ensure that these models are not contradictory, the necessity to detect and manage conflicts among the models arises. Detecting these inconsistencies at an early stage significantly reduces the amount of engineering activities re-execution. Therefore, to deal with this issue, a formal framework relying upon mathematical concepts is required. The mathematical theory, namely category theory (CT), is considered as an efficient tool to provide a formal and unifying framework supporting conflict detection and management. This paper proposes a comprehensive methodology that allows conflict detection and resolution in the context of mechatronic collaborative design. CT is used in order to explicitly capture the inconsistencies occurred between the disparate expert models. By means of this theory, the conflicts can be detected and handled in an easy and formal way. Our proposed approach is applied to a collaborative scenario concerning the electro-mechanical actuator (EMA) of the aileron.

Download Full-text

Symmetry-Based Conflict Detection and Resolution Method towards Web3D-based Collaborative Design

Symmetry ◽

10.3390/sym8050035 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mingjiu Yu ◽

Hongming Cai ◽

Xiaoming Ma ◽

Lihong Jiang

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Design ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Resolution Method ◽

Conflict Detection And Resolution

Download Full-text

Conflict Monitoring Across the Life Span

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000120 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 124-135 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Daniela Czernochowski

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Life Span ◽

Age Groups ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Response Conflict ◽

Conflict Monitoring ◽

Subsequent Performance ◽

Additional Control ◽

Performance Response ◽

Conflict Detection And Resolution

Errors can play a major role for optimizing subsequent performance: Response conflict associated with (near) errors signals the need to recruit additional control resources to minimize future conflict. However, so far it remains open whether children and older adults also adjust their performance as a function of preceding response conflict. To examine the life span development of conflict detection and resolution, response conflict was elicited during a task-switching paradigm. Electrophysiological correlates of conflict detection for correct and incorrect responses and behavioral indices of post-error adjustments were assessed while participants in four age groups were asked to focus on either speed or accuracy. Despite difficulties in resolving response conflict, the ability to detect response conflict as indexed by the Ne/ERN component was expected to mature early and be preserved in older adults. As predicted, reliable Ne/ERN peaks were detected across age groups. However, only for adults Ne/ERN amplitudes associated with errors were larger compared to Nc/CRN amplitudes for correct trials under accuracy instructions, suggesting an ongoing maturation in the ability to differentiate levels of response conflict. Behavioral interference costs were considerable in both children and older adults. Performance for children and older adults deteriorated rather than improved following errors, in line with intact conflict detection, but impaired conflict resolution. Thus, participants in all age groups were able to detect response conflict, but only young adults successfully avoided subsequent conflict by up-regulating control.

Download Full-text

Conflict detection and resolution for product line design in a collaborative decision making environment

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW '12 ◽

10.1145/2145204.2145402 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu ◽

Eric Christopher Barnes ◽

Juha Erik Savolainen

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Product Line ◽

Collaborative Decision Making ◽

Product Line Design ◽

Conflict Detection And Resolution ◽

Line Design ◽

Collaborative Decision

Download Full-text

Relationship between Students’ Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement in a Pre-University Mathematics Course

Journal of Education and Learning ◽

10.5539/jel.v6n4p364 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 364 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

George Tan Geok Shim ◽

Abang Mohammad Hudzaifah Abang Shakawi ◽

Farah Liyana Azizan

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Test ◽

Early Stage ◽

Teaching Style ◽

Basic Knowledge ◽

Local Context ◽

Strong Positive Correlation ◽

Test Results ◽

Mathematical Concepts ◽

University Mathematics ◽

Mathematics Examination

Educators have always highlighted the importance of mathematics mastery in education for many years. With the current emphasis of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEMs) education, mathematics mastery is even more vital because it supports the learning and mastery of science fields such as engineering and science. Furthermore, in higher education, mathematics is essential because majority of the courses require the use of mathematical concepts in their learning. In recent years, many countries including Malaysia have seen an increase in the enrolment number of tertiary students. The increase in student enrolment has resulted in a population of students with diverse abilities, and this creates challenges for educators in providing instruction to the students. Educators need to detect students’ mathematical ability at an early stage before teaching them new content. One way to gather information about students’ basic mathematics skill is through the use of diagnostic test. Diagnostic test in education is a preliminary assessment mainly used to detect students’ strengths and weaknesses in learning. It allows educators to cater their teaching style and content to suit to the students’ basic knowledge. With researches indicating the importance and benefits of using diagnostic test in various subjects, it is important to further examine the use of diagnostic test in the local context of pre-university studies. This study investigated the relationship between students’ mathematics diagnostic test results and final mathematics examination performances at a public pre-university programme. The samples of the study consisted of 250 pre-university students and the data of the study were collected through a mathematics diagnostic test paper, a questionnaire and a final mathematics examination. The outcomes of the study show that there was a strong positive correlation between mathematics diagnostic test results and students’ mathematics achievement in pre-university.

Download Full-text