Multiparadigm Design Environments

能够为不同的设计范式提供灵活的交互支持的设计环境对于提高大型复杂系统设计者的效率具有巨大的潜力。布朗CISE机构基础设施项目旨在通过实现以下研究目标来开发这样的环境：在单一环境中以一致的方式支持多种设计范例；2 .提供系统工具，促进设计团队在复杂任务上的互动；开发和实施适合设计问题的新范例；测试软件开发和超大规模集成电路设计问题领域的概念和工具。由布朗大学开发的多范式编程环境原型GARDEN将成为这项研究的中心测试平台。对面向对象数据库、并发工具、图形并行算法、逻辑和面向对象编程范例的研究也将有助于实现研究目标。

Design environments that could offer flexible interactive support for different design paradigms hold great potential for increasing the effectiveness of designers of large, complex systems. The Brown CISE Institutional Infrastructure project aims to develop such environments, by achieving the following research goals: 1. supporting in a consistent way a variety of design paradigms in a single environment, 2. providing system tools that facilitate the interaction of teams of designers working on complex tasks, 3. developing and implementing new paradigms suitable for design problems, 4. testing the concepts and tools in the problem domains of software development and VLSI design. GARDEN, the prototype multiparadigm programming environment developed at Brown, will be the central testbed for the research. Research in object-oriented databases, concurrency tools, parallel algorithms for graphics, and logic and object-oriented programming paradigms will also be instrumental in achieving the research goals.