Authors:
Richard Sohnius
1
;
Eyck Jentzsch
1
;
Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke
1
and
Vadim Ermolayev
2
Affiliations:
1
Cadence Design Systems, GmbH, Germany
;
2
Zaporozhye National Univ., Ukraine
Keyword(s):
Design system, assessment, simulation, PRODUKTIV+, PSI, performance, productivity, dynamic engineering design process, ontology, multi-agent system, microelectronics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications of Expert Systems
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Strategic Decision Support Systems
Abstract:
This position paper presents our work in assessing engineering design systems in the field of microelectronics with respect to their performance and, more specifically, to productivity. Current mainstream process assessment systems show deficiencies of the representation and analysis when dealing with dynamic, self-optimizing processes. To overcome this, a project called PRODUKTIV+ has been created with the goal to develop a new approach. This approach is to create a model of a design system and simulate the colaborative behavior of the involved engineers using a system of cooperating, intelligent software agents. The assessment of a design system is then done based on the detailed simulation results.