The implementation of DESCRIBE

Author

Faulconbridge, Anton

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cardiff Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

8-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

55

Abstract

Design engineers frequently re-use or adapt old designs. Currently, this process is undertaken manually, albeit with the assistance of CAD and analysis software. Using object-oriented databases, the DESCRIBE (DEsign System to support Concurrent Re-use of data In Building and Engineering Design) project concerns the creation of a system that allows the storage of design artefacts as discrete objects using object `wrappers´. DESCRIBE employs versioning and configuration management support and has an intuitive user interface. To give the work a practical focus, we are considering the domain of bridge design

Keywords

CAD; civil engineering computing; configuration management; engineering information systems; object-oriented databases; user interfaces; visual databases; CAD; DESCRIBE project; analysis software; bridge design; configuration management; design reuse; discrete objects; engineering design; intuitive user interface; object wrappers; object-oriented databases; versioning; Automatic control; Bridges; Buildings; Computer science; Data engineering; Design automation; Design engineering; Electrical capacitance tomography; Solids; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. IDEAS'98. International

Conference_Location

Cardiff

ISSN

1098-8068

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8307-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDEAS.1998.694357

Filename

694357