This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the MIT-JSME Workshop on Co-operative Product Development, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA in 1989. The 28 selected papers were organized into the following six categories: frameworks, dealing with problem-solving architectures; organizational issues, investigating strategies for organizing engineering activities for effective utilization of computer-aided tools; negotiation techniques, dealing with conflict detection and resolution between various agents; transaction management issues, dealing with...