Advanced Infrastructure for PAN-European Collaborative Engineering Bauer, M. Eikerling, Heinz-Josef Müller, Wolfgang Pawlak, A. Siekierska, K. Soderberg, D. Warzee, X. This article presents challenges, visions, and solutions for a true Pan- European collaborative engineering infrastructure that is a target of the IST project E-COLLEG. The consortium aims at the definition of a transparent infrastructure that will enable engineers from various domains to collaborate during the design of complex heterogeneous systems. In this context, we introduce an advanced collaborative infrastructure (ACI). ACI covers dynamic Tool Registration and Management Services (TRMS) for distance-spanning, tool integration and administration, as well as open interfaces for XML-based data exchange. TRMS will constitute a backbone for E-COLLEG-related pan-European collaborative research and engineering studies by fostering a combination of most recent Plug- and-Play techniques employing agent-based communication based on XML- oriented integration technologies. This new enabling technology for collaborative engineering is validated in two application scenarios. 2001 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject doc-type:conferenceObject text http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 https://ris.uni-paderborn.de/record/39407 Bauer M, Eikerling H-J, Müller W, et al. Advanced Infrastructure for PAN-European Collaborative Engineering. Published online 2001. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess