The Design/Simulation Council promotes a standard framework employing common terminology to integrate and optimize the diverse and divergent specialist activities currently fragmenting design efforts. CAE must fully integrate with design, up front, to close the chasm between design and analysis. The impending breakthrough in CAE will rest on knowledge reuse, process capture, and streamlining. CAD frameworks should facilitate the bi-directional propagation of design changes with analysis to support active collaboration. In order to facilitate coupling that captures, extends, and distributes knowledge, an intermediate abstract representation of the model must support the full range of data requirements. In particular, all relationships at the detailed level of the model such as files, features, attributes, and parameters must be specified and tracked. The Design/Simulation Council's current strategic analysis will concentrate on the following critical issues: Critical Priorities for Design and Simulation, CAE Data Model Pilot Definition, CAE Framework Pilot Definition, and Vendors' Evaluation. A list of available documents follows.

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