A Framework for Change Management in a Design Database

• Author(s): K. Hall, Stanford University Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University. Computer Science Department,
• Publisher: Stanford University
• Pages: 171
• Language: en

Description:... This thesis argues that a tool-centric approach is unsuitable in a design environment for concurrent design, which requires a new design- centric approach that does permit close cooperation, and that existing tools and design databases cannot offer that new apporach. As a framework for the design-centric approach, this thesis presents the Change Manager, which is a collection of software modules that are distributed among CAD tools and the design databse. The Change Manager augments the functionality of tools and the database by serving as an intermediary between application code in a tool, and design data in the database.