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Design is a model-based activity and is essential in any engineering field. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) can benefit from Computer-Aided Systems Technology (CAST) since systems theories on which CAST is based on, provide powerful bases to tackle complexity issues as well as modelling and model processing formalisms. In computerization, another type of complexity, tool interface complexity arises. For a system where n software tools communicate, the order of the interface complexity is n2 which may become unmanageable. With the use of a repository, the tool interface complexity is reduced to n. The article describes an example repository-based CAST-CAD environment which uses Finite State Automata-based tools.
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Ören, T.I., King, D.G. (1994). Computer-Aided Systems Technology for CAD environments: Complexity issues and a repository-based approach. In: Pichler, F., Moreno Díaz, R. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST '93. EUROCAST 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57601-0_46
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