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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 61
NOVEL DESIGN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS FOR CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B. Kumar and B.H.V. Topping
Paper II.3

Cooperative Networked Workspaces for Structural Design

J. Wang and C.-W. Chao

Department of Civil Engineering, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Wang, C.-W. Chao, "Cooperative Networked Workspaces for Structural Design", in B. Kumar, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Novel Design and Information Technology Applications for Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 33-38, 1999. doi:10.4203/ccp.61.2.3
Abstract
The cooperative networked workspaces compose a design framework making use of network computing technology to integrate a knowledge-based blackboard system with algorithmic programs on the network. Knowledge-based expert systems are suitable for solving ill-structured problems Algorithmic programs are best for solving large-scale numerical problems and can assist the analysis in the realm of mechanics. The problems in integrating knowledge-based expert systems with algorithmic programs usually are surrounded by the data exchange difficulties resulted from the differences of their platforms. Therefore, this research aims at developing a networked environment for blackboard-based cooperative structural design and defining a set of specifications for exchange data between input/output files of the analytic programs and the blackboard.

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