A Model for the Flow of Design Information in OpenADE

Published

June 1, 2001

Author(s)

Steven Shooter, Walid Keirouz, Simon Szykman, Steven J. Fenves

Abstract

This working document describes OpenADE's agent-based architecture. The goal for developing this architecture is to support information exchange and interoperability between design agents throughout the life-cycle of an artifact. The architecture itself is based on a design workspace that is shared between a large variety of agents---independent tools. The agents interact with the design workspace using existing or proposed standards-based translators. The approach for developing these standards assumes that a semantic model underlying the domain of assembly design exists. The first step needed to develop standardized translators for an agent's domain is to formalize the semantics of the agent's domain and map these semantics onto those of assembly design. The information exchange is then standardized to operate at the appropriate level of abstraction.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 6746

Report Number

6746

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

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NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6746

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Keywords

design, design process, engineering information management, information flow, knowledge representation

Citation

Shooter, S. , Keirouz, W. , Szykman, S. and Fenves, S. (2001), A Model for the Flow of Design Information in OpenADE, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.6746, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821606 (Accessed October 18, 2025)