Distributed Collaborative Design over Cave2 Framework

Abstract

This paper presents the research and development of mechanisms to allow distributed collaborative design of integrated systems. Those mechanisms were implemented over the software infrastructure developed under the Cave Project, taking advantage on both definitions of the framework concept: classical electronic design frameworks and object-oriented extensible data modeling. The final result is a design environment accessible over Internet-like networks, where groups of designers can work over the design representation in a collaborative way. In order to organize the interaction between the designers, an extension to the Pair Programming collaboration methodology was developed and implemented in a case study