Engineering design data have many characteristics distingushed from business data. First of all, they are usually complex objects, The design object is composed of lower level subobjects, which are also complex objects.
In this paper, a functional cl...
Engineering design data have many characteristics distingushed from business data. First of all, they are usually complex objects, The design object is composed of lower level subobjects, which are also complex objects.
In this paper, a functional clustering method is suggested for managing these complex design objects. This method is very efficient for managing the engineering design data.
The concept of this method is described in detail. This method is made from the funcdion level clustering method, which was suggested by Cheiney and applied on the relational database system. We extend and apply it on the complex object management environment.
Lastly, we show the diffectiveness of the functional clustering method by comparing it to the conventional method.