A resource-based CSCW supporting environment for rapid design

On the purpose, of sharing the distributing, various format, and low relevance design resources among people of different design teams and in different stags, a CSCW design supporting environment is proposed based on design resource modeling, managing, searching, and using so as to shorten product development period. First, a general design meta-resource (DMR) structure was built to act as the united basic unit to extract resource information and build index. Based on binary large object (BLOB), some common-used resource cases are also stored in platform database to decrease the access numbers of distributing database. Then three kinds of semantics relations were given to build hierarchy semantics networks so as to organize, manage the design resource. At last, in order to carry out association-based searching, resource evaluating and filtering, a similar-degree algorithm between two DMR cases was presented. In practical, a resource-based integrated system is implemented for a jewel design enterprise. The application shows that the system enhances the relevancy and sharing among resources of different design team, and makes design activity rapidly.