Title :
FORS: a system for flexible design
Author :
Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1990. Conference Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-597-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1990.142215
