Interactive planning in CIM-CASE

An interactive planning approach to the generation of complex software architectures for advanced automation systems is presented. The concept of CIM-computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is briefly described as a system that aids a system designer in deriving particular CIM architectures out of a reference model while referring to an electronic catalog of CIM components. Emphasis is put on the hierarchical interactive planning approach used in CIM-CASE. Implementation details of a prototype are discussed. An interactive planning approach is applied to the design of new software architectures