A Collaborative 3D Environment for Authoring of Design Semantics

Abstract

In this paper, the authors present MUG, a collaborative 3D environment to support knowledge-based conceptual design. This work integrates Computer-Aided and Collaborative Design methods with the representation framework being developed for the SemanticWeb. In this work, they have created a unique environment that allows a group of users working together over the Internet to create both a 3D layout and a knowledge-based description of a conceptual product design. MUG accepts domain-specific engineering ontologies described with the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) and provides a multi-modal collaborative 3D environment, supporting shared audio and shared 3D manipulation, for users to define product structures. MUG is written entirely in the Java language and runs across a wide variety of hardware and operating system platforms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA458372

Entities

People

  • Cheryl V. Foster
  • Christopher D. Cera
  • Ilya Braude
  • William Clement Regli
  • Yuri Shapirstein

Organizations

  • Drexel University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Semantics
  • User Interface
  • Virtual Reality
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Software Engineering.