ITcon Special Issue

Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration

editor(s) Dr. Peter Katranuschkov, Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Construction Informatics, TU Dresden, Germany
email: Peter.Katranuschkov@cib.bau.tu-dresden.de
summary In the last decade, there have been much research and development efforts in construction IT spent on various collaboration related issues such as product modelling and management, data exchange and sharing, knowledge management, Web-enabled cooperative work. The focus of these developments has been on the efficient use of project information (architectural and engineering solutions, drawings, specifications, reports), created in result of various kinds of project activities. Less attention has been paid to the processes themselves in which this information is being created. However, to add more value to collaboration, decrease the amount of wasted time and increase the quality of the communicated information, it is necessary to consider simultaneously various process modelling and management issues in tight relationship with collaboration demands. The nine papers appearing in this Special Issue of the ITcon journal address many essential process related topics. Developed on the basis of selected contributions from the CIB-W78 Conference on Construction IT held at Dresden, Germany in July 2005, they cover aspects of collaborative business process networks, agent-enabled process models used in cooperative civil engineering work, prediction/simulation processes for interdisciplinary decision support, formal specification of construction schedules, visualization support to process coordination and, last but not least, a case study examining the usefulness of several coordination support techniques put together. This broad range of aspects does have a binding idea that can be tracked throughout all papers – the process-centric approach to project collaboration. In different and distinguished ways, the work done by all authors substantially contributes to that essential upcoming issue of construction IT.

Papers in this special issue

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1Katranuschkov P (2006).
Process modelling, process management and collaboration – editorial,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 447-448, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/33
2Keller M, Scherer R J, Menzel K, Theling T, Vanderhaeghen D and Loos P (2006).
Support of collaborative business process networks in AEC,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 449-465, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/34
3Cerovsek T and Katranuschkov P (2006).
Active process reuse model for collaboration,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 467-488, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/35
4Alda S, Bilek J, Cremers A B and Hartmann D (2006).
Awareness and workflow based coordination of networked co-operations in structural design,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 489-507, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/36
5Rueppel U and Lange M (2006).
An integrative process model for cooperation support in civil engineering,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 509-528, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/37
6Bletzinger K-U and Lähr A (2006).
Prediction of interdisciplinary consequences for decisions in AEC design processes,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 529-545, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/38
7Huhnt W and Enge F (2006).
Can algorithms support the specification of construction schedules?,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 547-564, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/39
8Kubicki S, Bignon J C, Halin G and Humbert P (2006).
Assistance to building construction coordination – towards a multi-view cooperative platform,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 565-586, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/40
9Otjacques B, Noirhomme M and Feltz F (2006).
Taxonomy of the visualization techniques of project related interactions,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 587-605, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/41
10Haymaker J, Ayaz E, Fischer M, Kam C, Kunz J, Ramsey M, Suter B and Toledo M (2006).
Managing and communicating information on the Stanford Living Laboratory feasibility study,
ITcon Vol. 11, Special issue Process Modelling, Process Management and Collaboration, pg. 607-626, http://www.itcon.org/paper/2006/42