FORS: a system for flexible design

Author

Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

4-7 Nov 1990

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

726

Abstract

The structure of FORS, a software tool that deals primarily with the area of collaboration and secondarily with human computer interfaces and record keeping, is described. It also deals with tool acquisition. FORS implements the network model of collaboration and permits dynamic reconfiguration of tools and aspects. A detailed description of its four modules-an aspect library, a tool library, a design space, and remote effects-is given. The implementation of the system in the mechanical design of a window regulator is examined

Keywords

CAD; mechanical engineering computing; programming environments; records management; software tools; user interfaces; CAD; FORS; aspect library; collaboration; design space; human computer interfaces; mechanical engineering computing; network model; record keeping; remote effects; software tool; tool acquisition; tool library; window regulator; Automatic control; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Communication system control; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Humans; Libraries; Object oriented modeling; Problem-solving; Regulators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1990. Conference Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-87942-597-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1990.142215

Filename

142215