SHARED-DRIMS: SHARED design recommendation-intent management system

A fundamental issue in developing collaborative engineering systems is the representation and management of the design rationale. A system for capturing the design rationale needs to represent and manage the intent evolution, the artifact evolution, the relationship between intents and between intent and artifact, as well as the different inputs from different designers. The authors describe an information system, SHARED-DRIMS, which was developed for encoding design rationale in DICE, a distributed and integrated environment for computer-aided engineering. SHARED-DRIMS consists of satellite modules attached to each agent, and a central core connected to all the professionals involved. Each module has three parts? (1) a comprehensive knowledge base, (2) a product model, and (3) a design intent-recommendation model (DRIM). In addition, the framework contains mechanisms for checking interactions and presenting hypotheses about the reasons for the interactions