One Transaction-Based Approaches. - 1 Transaction-based design data processing in the PRIMA framework. - 2 A configurable cooperative transaction model for design frameworks. - Two Data Management and Tool Integration. - 3 Configuration management in the STAR framework. - 4 Autocap: an automatic tool encapsulator. - 5 Schema evolution in the STAR framework. - Three Data Types. - 6 Integration of a domain conceptual model with the EDIF information model. - 7 Generating abstract datatypes with remote access capabilities. - 8 Extending view technology for complex integration tasks. - Four Federated Systems. - 9 Framework and multi-formalism: the ASAR project. - 10 Enhancing the data openness of frameworks by database federation services. - 11 Interoperability support by integration of EXPRESS models. - Five Communicationn and Distribution. - 12 Communication in a distributed environment. - 13 Basic requirements for an efficient inter-framework-communication. - 14 Resource-oriented load distribution in a framework environment. - Six Design Management. - 15 Design Flow Management: more than convenient tool invocation. - 16 Planning and managing multi-disciplinary and concurrent design processes. - 17 A user model supporting communication in high-level design systems. - Seven Special Design Environments. - 18 A framework for electrical test engineering automation. - 19 A compound information model for high-level synthesis. - 20 An object-oriented CAE framework for asynchronous circuit synthesis. - Eight Standards. - 21 Design representation in EDIF Version 3 0 0 and CFI Version 1. 0. - 22 STEP technology for ECAD databases. - Nine Design Representation and Interfaces. - 23 Towards design formalization to support reuse in ECAD frameworks. - 24 A generator for graph-based design representations. - 25 The visualinterface of the STAR framework. - Index of contributors. Language: English