Data Models and Database Systems.
Data management is very much an enabling technology for multidisciplinary design and analysis.
These are expensive to generate and require extensive validation. The opportunity for errors entering the multidisciplinary design process are greatly amplified across each application interface. This common model would capture individual discipline data fields within a unified representation that provides consistent information at the boundaries of each discipline. This information can be distributed across a variety of computing platforms. Where it is appropriate, object-oriented data hierarchies are used to organize and minimize data storage while providing linkages into discipline applications.