Virtual Manufacturing Background Project

Survey Response

• Name(s): Fritz Freiheit
• Contact Information:

  fritx@eecs.umich.edu
  Fritz.Freiheit
  fritx@umich.edu
  http://www.engin.umich.edu/~fritx/
  

• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) project is intended to be
  cohesive way to link together a wide range of collections (i.e. databases)
  using intelligent agents. Queries are formulated by the users with the help
  of user interface and query planning agents in such a way as to indentify
  the most likely subset of collections that will satisfy a specific query.
  This query is then passed to the identified collections which process the
  query and return the results to the user interface which then presents it
  to the user. The collections will not be limited to traditional databases,
  but will also include live World Wide Web pages, live data feeds (such as
  sensors), news groups, etc. The areas that UMDL would be relevant to virtual
  manufacturing are: Integrating Infrastructure & Architecture and Integration
  of Legacy Data. Both of these are areas where intelligent methods of data
  query and integration would prove useful. The UMDL is particularly well
  suited for this in that it has an open ended architecture that new (task
  specific) agents can be added to it in such a way as to take advantage of
  previously existing infrastructure and capabilities of UMDL.
  
  References & World Wide Web URL:
  http://www.sils.umich.edu/UMDL/HomePage.html
  
  

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