协同集成设计环境的计算机辅助工具

COMPUTER-AIDED TOOL FORCOLABORATIVE INTEGRATEDDESIGN ENVIRONMENTS

研究了一个协同集成设计环境的计算机辅助工具(Co-CADToolAgent)。首先提出了一个人人交互协同映射模型,用于揭示群体设计人员分布、并行、协同的设计模式,并规范成为一个多Agent协同工作系统。然后提出了一种半透明半明确的协作框架,利用软件Agent直接基于单用户商品化CAD系统开发协同设计系统,构造了CoCADToolAgent的反应式结构和通信支持。最后研究了CoCADToolAgen的网络集成方法。利用该工具Agent成功地将一个单用户CAD系统集成为网络环境下支持人人交互的协同设计系统。

A computer-aided tool for collaborative integrated design environments is discussed. Firstly, a descriptive and a cognitive model of collaborative design processes are presented to illuminate the nature of Human-human interaction in distributed, concurrent and collaborative environments. As a result, a corresponding prescriptive model is outlined to adopt a multi-agent architecture for collaborative integrated design. Secondly, a novel approach of semi-transparency and semi-awareness collaboration frame is researched to develop collaborative CAD systems. It does so by inserting CoCADToolAgent into the kernel of commercial stand-alone CAD systems. CoCADToolAgent has a reactive agent structure with communication capability. Finally, some issues and solutions in CoCADToolAgent are studied. The proposed methods and tool have been successfully to update a commercial stand-alone CAD system into a collaborative integrated design environment.