The Distributed Architectural Model for Co-Operative Design

Collaborative design has become one of the most significant topics in the field of design science and computing. Many studies have been made on proposing methods of collaborative design computing from various points of view. In this paper, the latest technological approach in the field of computer science is taken to illustrate future design systems. The distributed architectural model is proposed to support collaborative and concurrent design. I will begin by discussing existing methods for design collaboration, and I will also mention the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) specifications for the framework of the distributed computing environment. The semantic/presentation split basis is introduced as the essential for developing distributed applications, and the strategy for adapting AKM (Architectural Knowledge-representation Model) to this basis will also be considered. Then I will introduce the sample implementation of our distributed architectural model in the Distributed Smalltalk environment, and also explain IDL (Interface Definition Language) interface of architectural objects