DICE: An Object Oriented Programming Environment for Cooperative Engineering Design

Abstract

The development and testing of knowledge based computer tools for the integration and coordination of various phases and participants of the engineering process are described. A system architecture - DICE - is presented which is intended to provide cooperation and coordination among multiple designers working in separate engineering disciplines, using knowledge to estimate interface conditions between disciplines, recording who used any piece of design data created by others, and how such data was used, and checking for conflicts among disciplines, manufacturability, and manufacturing cost and schedule impacts of design decisions. The system is being developed using object oriented programming and blackboard control techniques. Current status of DICE, along with examples in the domain of civil engineering are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 1989
Accession Number
ADA207421

Entities

People

  • Duvvuru Sriram
  • Jonathan Cherneff
  • Nichoas Groleau
  • Robert D. Logcher

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Database Management Systems
  • Engineers
  • Expert Systems
  • Fabrication
  • Manufacturing
  • Negotiations
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Prototypes
  • Safety Analysis
  • Simulations
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering