An e-Engineering Framework Based on Service-Oriented Architecture and Agent Technologies

This paper presents an ongoing project on the development of an e-Engineering framework proposed by KIMM (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials). The framework is based on a number of advanced technologies, such as intelligent software agents, Web Services, and Service-Oriented Architecture. And it aims to provide an integrated design environment to support integrating personnel, design activities and engineering resources during product development process. Especially Service-Oriented Architecture and Web services technologies enable to utilize and integrate effectively various engineering resources on the geographically distributed computing environments. And intelligent agent technologies support cooperation and coordination mechanisms for the engineering resources and services. In this paper we describe an implementation of the framework in detail.