Constraint meta-object: A new object model for distributed collaborative designing

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 208-221

  Ram, D Janaki ^a   Vivekananda, N ^a   Rao, C Srinivas ^a   Mohan, N Krishna ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Collaborative designing; Computer aided design (CAD); Computer supported collaborative work (CSCW); Constraint meta object; Distributed object databases

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK; CONSTRAINT META OBJECT; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGNING; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT DATABASES; OBJECT MODEL;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0031103271     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.554683     Document Type: Article

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