Analysis on 10 years of ISPE/CEconf community

The 10th Conference on Concurrent Engineering provides an excellent occasion for looking back into the history of the ISPE/CEconf community. This community has manifested itself in the many papers that have been presented at the previous nine conferences. After ten years of concerted effort to develop and disseminate results in CE research and practice sufficient material is available to generate a consolidated vision of Concurrent Engineering. In this paper, results from an analysis of the past nine proceedings are presented. Based on this material, the ISPE/CEconf community is characterized. A medium-term and long-term vision on Concurrent Engineering are formulated to guide the community in the coming 10 years.