DECOR - tightly integrated Design Control and Observation

This paper presents DECOR, a conngurable design ow management component for online monitoring and control of concurrent design processes. In addition , DECOR allows automatic activation of design actions. Since DECOR is tightly integrated into a framework like a usual design tool, its approach is also applicable for other frameworks. DECOR allows to control encapsulated tools as well as tools that are tightly integrated into the framework. Manipulations of data objects with arbitrary granularity from les or directories down to single structures can be considered. DECOR relies on a formal model for the speciica-tion of design process behaviour. This is especially important for environment openness, since the eeect of changes to an existing design process model due to environment extensions can only be assessed if the semantics of the speciied design process is clearly de-ned.