A description language for design process management

Peter R. Sutton, Stephen W. Director
1996 Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference on Design automation conference - DAC '96  
A language for defining design discipline characteristics is proposed. Design discipline characteristics such as abstraction levels, design object classifications and decompositions, design objectives, and design methodologies can be defined in a simple machine and human readable form. The language, DDDL, has led to the development of a user interface for Minerva II, a design process management tool, which, when configured with a design discipline description, can be used to aid teams of
more » ... rs in the solution of complex multi-disciplinary design problems. DDDL and user interface examples are presented.
doi:10.1145/240518.240551 dblp:conf/dac/SuttonD96 fatcat:vo3v7tkutfgc3p3ru27lgaix5a