TY - GEN
T1 - Active catalog
T2 - ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, DETC 1997
AU - Ling, S. Ringo
AU - Kim, Jihie
AU - Will, Peter
AU - Luo, Ping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1997 by ASME.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The exponential growth of the Internet and the increasing communication and computational power have created many op- portunities for advancing engineering, manufacturing and business activities. Active Catalog brings a conceptually new idea to design and electronic commerce by providing new forms of catalog infor- mation about engineering parts and physical objects. Active Cata- log is designed for nding and using information in building design applications in the context of heterogeneous, Internet-based dis- tributed computing environments. The information provided by Active Catalog is active, dynamic, composable,multi-dimensional, share-able, semantically accessible, interoperable and executable in distributed environments. Active Catalog allows engineers and designers to search for information about catalog parts syntactically and semantically, use that information to construct simulation programs rapidly, and test out their designs on the Internet before committing to actual fabrication of physical systems. It supports a new Try Before You Buy paradigm in the Internet-based design and electronic commerce. This paper presents a number of research issues and our approach in building an Internet-based catalog information re- source. The paper describes an initial prototype toward realizing the Try Before You Buy paradigm, in the context of the electro- mechanical design of pump and motor systems. The prototype contains a pump ontology and a search engine for nding seman- tically equivalent parts. The paper also describes a distributed simulation, which runs on various machines, and exchanges dy- namic information using commercial data exchange mechanisms.
AB - The exponential growth of the Internet and the increasing communication and computational power have created many op- portunities for advancing engineering, manufacturing and business activities. Active Catalog brings a conceptually new idea to design and electronic commerce by providing new forms of catalog infor- mation about engineering parts and physical objects. Active Cata- log is designed for nding and using information in building design applications in the context of heterogeneous, Internet-based dis- tributed computing environments. The information provided by Active Catalog is active, dynamic, composable,multi-dimensional, share-able, semantically accessible, interoperable and executable in distributed environments. Active Catalog allows engineers and designers to search for information about catalog parts syntactically and semantically, use that information to construct simulation programs rapidly, and test out their designs on the Internet before committing to actual fabrication of physical systems. It supports a new Try Before You Buy paradigm in the Internet-based design and electronic commerce. This paper presents a number of research issues and our approach in building an Internet-based catalog information re- source. The paper describes an initial prototype toward realizing the Try Before You Buy paradigm, in the context of the electro- mechanical design of pump and motor systems. The prototype contains a pump ontology and a search engine for nding seman- tically equivalent parts. The paper also describes a distributed simulation, which runs on various machines, and exchanges dy- namic information using commercial data exchange mechanisms.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC97/CIE-4292
DO - 10.1115/DETC97/CIE-4292
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:3042658880
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 17th Computers in Engineering Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Y2 - 14 September 1997 through 17 September 1997
ER -