A literature survey of multiple discipline integration keywords, based on a process, model, and knowledge classification

摘要

Integration is still one of the main issues that multidisciplinary design faces nowadays. However, due to the lack of a precise definition and variety of contexts that use the term integration, it is very challenging to find relevant literature reviews on the topic. To solve this issue, we used a process, knowledge, and model classification approach, which generated a large set of highly relevant and varied publications. Using this large amount of literature, the contribution of this paper consisted on identifying a set of relevant keywords (～130), grouped in 14 categories. These keywords and categories support the literature search in the topic of integrating the system design with the detail design according to the multiple discipline detail design. Furthermore, by assessing the type of outlets and level of testing, we concluded that the topic is still in its infancy, having a lot of activity in recent years and still establishing possible research directions.