@article {18832,
	title = {Feature Recognition for Interactive Applications: Exploiting Distributed Resources},
	volume = {UMIACS-TR-94-126.1},
	year = {1998},
	month = {1998/10/15/},
	institution = {Instititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park},
	abstract = {The availability of low-cost computational power is a drivingforce behind the growing sophistication of CAD software. Tools designed 
to reduce time-consuming build-test-redesign iterations are essential 
for increasing engineering quality and productivity. However, automation 
of the design process poses many difficult computational problems. As 
more downstream engineering activities are being considered during the
design phase, guaranteeing reasonable response times within design 
systems becomes problematic. Design is an interactive process and speed 
is a critical factor in systems that enable designers to explore and 
experiment with alternative ideas during the design phase. Achieving 
interactivity requires an increasingly sophisticated allocation
of computational resources in order to perform realistic design analyses 
and generate feedback in real time.
	This paper presents our initial efforts to develop techniques to 
apply distributed algorithms to the problem of recognizing machining 
features from solid models. Existing work on recognition of features has 
focused exclusively on serial computer architectures. Our objective is to 
show that distributed algorithms can be employed on realistic parts
with large numbers of features and many geometric and topological 
entities to obtain significant improvements in computation time using 
existing hardware and software tools. Migrating solid modeling applications 
toward a distributed computing framework enables interconnection of many of 
the autonomous and geographically diverse software tools used in the 
modern manufacturing enterprise.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-94-126.1)
},
	keywords = {Technical Report},
	url = {http://drum.lib.umd.edu//handle/1903/675},
	author = {Regli,William C. and Gupta, Satyandra K. and Nau, Dana S.}
}
