A Frame Based Architecture for Information Integration in CIMS

This paper foumulates and architecture for information integration in computer integrated manufacturing systems(CIMS).The architecture takes the frame structure as single link among applications and between applications and physical storage.All the advantages in form features based intgrated systems can be found in the frame-based architecture as the frame structrue here takes from features as its primitives.But other advantage,e.g.,default knowledge and dynamic domain knowledge can be attached to frames and the frame structure is easy to be changed and extended,which cannot be found ing form reatures based systems,can also be showed in frame based architectures as the frame structure is a typical knowledge representation scheme in artificial intelligence and many researches and interests have put on it.