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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP on May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. Foils prepared May 25,1995
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This overview was part of a NASA sponsored workshop involving MADIC (Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Industrial Consortium) Team 2, NASA, Georgia Tech, Rice and NPAC.
This started a MADIC activity to identify and demonstrate the use of NII technology in ASOP (Affordable Systems Optimization Process) -- a novel approach to Multidisciplinary Optimization for aircraft and other complex system design.
ASOP intrinsically involves world wide collaboration between several large aerospace corporations and tens of thousands of suppliers and so the NII can have major value both for supporting collaboration between people and for supporting the thousands of linked optimizations -- each involving several different programs.
We stress the rapid evolution of the Web and the ability of Web Technology to be applied to Enterprise Inforemation Systems such as that required to manage ASOP.
MADIC companies involved include Rockwell, General Motors, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop-Grumman-Vought, Lockheed-Martin and General Electric.

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1 An Overview of The National Information Infrastructure
-- Presentation to ASOP Multidisciplinary Optimization Workshop
2 Abstract of NII for ASOP Presentation
3 A Typical Hierarchical Server Network
4 What is a Web or HPMMCC Network Server ?
5 Basic Structure of World Wide Web
6 Architecture of Web Software
7 Some Recent Web Developments
8 Web Application Software Vision

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Foil 1 An Overview of The National Information Infrastructure
-- Presentation to ASOP Multidisciplinary Optimization Workshop

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May 22-23 Arlington Texas
Geoffrey C. Fox
NPAC
Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse
NY 13244-4100
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Foil 2 Abstract of NII for ASOP Presentation

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * See also color IMAGE
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This overview was part of a NASA sponsored workshop involving MADIC (Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Industrial Consortium) Team 2, NASA, Georgia Tech, Rice and NPAC.
This started a MADIC activity to identify and demonstrate the use of NII technology in ASOP (Affordable Systems Optimization Process) -- a novel approach to Multidisciplinary Optimization for aircraft and other complex system design.
ASOP intrinsically involves world wide collaboration between several large aerospace corporations and tens of thousands of suppliers and so the NII can have major value both for supporting collaboration between people and for supporting the thousands of linked optimizations -- each involving several different programs.
We stress the rapid evolution of the Web and the ability of Web Technology to be applied to Enterprise Inforemation Systems such as that required to manage ASOP.
MADIC companies involved include Rockwell, General Motors, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop-Grumman-Vought, Lockheed-Martin and General Electric.
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Foil 3 A Typical Hierarchical Server Network

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Foil 4 What is a Web or HPMMCC Network Server ?

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Web Servers use "Web Technology" to service World Wide Web and other forms of networked multimedia information
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Foil 5 Basic Structure of World Wide Web

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Browsers have SAME interface on ALL Computers
CGI Programs are typically written in PERL but can be essentially ANY UNIX Process and so do simulation, database access, advanced document processing etc.
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Foil 6 Architecture of Web Software

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Application Specific NII Specific Services for
  • Education
  • HealthCare
  • Commerce
  • Manufacturing etc.
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Foil 7 Some Recent Web Developments

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * See also color IMAGE
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WebMagic -- HTML editor which essentially integrates server and Netscape client on a single computer for fast client stand-alone editing.
VRML which is a 3D data structure which could be used in display of ASOP physical artifacts. It is based on open subset of SGI Inventor database technology. VRML viewers are just coming out
JAVA has just been released by a group in Sun and in some ways competes with VRML (viewers). It is a Client technology which includes a C++ subset interpreter allowing clients to spawn processes called Applets. This makes clients "intelligent" and largely indistinguishable in functionality with servers.
Note future Web Architecture will be Server-Server. Not Client-Server.
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Foil 8 Web Application Software Vision

From Master Foilset for NASA/MADIC NII Requirements for ASOP NASA/MADIC Workshop on NII Requirements for ASOP -- May 22-23 1995 Arlington TX. * See also color IMAGE
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A Set of Application domains and each with its own natural (interpreted) language manipulating domain-specific data structures. WebScript links the domains together
Examples are:
  • PERL for world of Text (PERL includes C(++), UNIX shell and text processing Awk and Sed capabilities)
  • JAVA for constructing browsers
  • VRML is data structure for 3D objects which are viewed by VRML viewers
  • WebHPF is Interpreted distributed High Performance Fortran used in CFD simulation, structures etc. (for ASOP)
  • Web AVS is Web implementation of AVS(Khoros) and can be used for coarse grain software integration
  • WebASOP is designed to translate between different disciplines (uses some version of PDES/STEP product specification data structures) and link all the 10,000 different programs/expert systems etcx.
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