1999 Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 71-81
An Idea Creation Support System (ICSS) requires a wide range of functions : including visualization, modeling, analysis and data management. There is no a functional boundary for an ICSS in practice and the implementations of the functions depends on the specific usage. Therefore, the dynamic extensibility and flexibility are the two challenge issues faced by ICSS developers. This paper presents an ICSS architecture which consists of a component model and a component management system. By centralizing signal running between components and the coherently integration of the component model and the componenet management system, the systems developed based on this architecture are highly flexible and dynamically extensible and can provide better support for the trial-and-error style idea creation process.
