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Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering: Modelling Guides * Nada Matta Abstract. In Concurrent Engineering, several designers (participants) aim at the designers group, according to their design propositions. Such designing a system (artifact), given requirements. Conflict Management in conflicts arise from problems caused by strategies used and propo- Concurrent Engineering is a complex task in which it is difficult to identify sitions made by designers: 1) Strategic conflicts ensue from the conflicts and to solve them. Reuse of generic components is generally consid- inconsistency in methods and tools used by designers and in the ered as a good help to guide complex task modeling. An overview of our study allocation of tasks to each designer [6]. Divergence between the to define a library of generic components to guide conflict management mod- participants responsibilities and failure in their cooperation [3] eling is presented below. Conflict management methods, proposed in the lit- erature, are classified and associated to each concurrent engineering subtask. cause also strategic conflicts. 2) Conflicts about propositions made This classification provides help to index these methods, considered as can appear from: a) misunderstanding of the participants’ terminol- generic components in a library. ogies and t