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An Agent-based System for Capturing and Indexing Software Design Meetings
  • Tracy Hammond, Design Rationale Group
  • Krzysztof Gajos, Intelligent Room
  • Randall Davis, Design Rationale Group
  • Howard Shrobe, Intelligent Room
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Software Design Meetings
  • Discuss Design
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Capturing Design History
  • Videotape the meeting
  • Videotape the white board


  • Question:
    • How do you index videotape?
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Solution: Tahuti, Sketch Recognition of Design Diagrams
  •  UML Diagrams + Agents
  •  Natural: Shape Based
  •  Projected Screen / Digital Pen
  •  Agent Arch. – Many Computers, Devices
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Tahuti: UML Sketch Recognition
  • Sketch Naturally
  • Natural Editing Capabilities
  • Code Generation Facilities
  • Event Indexing


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Tahuti: UML Sketch Recognition
  • Sketch Naturally
  • Natural Editing Capabilities
  • Code Generation Facilities
  • Event Indexing


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Tahuti: UML Sketch Recognition
  • Sketch Naturally
  • Natural Editing Capabilities
  • Code Generation Facilities
  • Event Indexing


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Recognizable Shapes
  • UML Class Diagram
    • General Class
    • Interface Class
    • Interface Association
    • Dependency Association
    • Inheritance Association
    • Aggregation Association
  • Intelligent Room Agents
    • Agent Class
    • Speech Grammar

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Sketched Diagram
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Interpreted Diagram
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Agent Abstraction
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Relies On Abstraction
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Speech Grammar
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Event Indexing
  • Events
    • Addition, Deletion, Movement of General Class, Interface Class, Agent Class, Sketch Grammar, Association, Unrecognized Stroke
    • Text update
    • Undo, Redo
  • Use to Index Videotape
  • What was the meeting discussion when this class was added?
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Auto-summarization of Design History by Event Ranking
  • Final Design: 12
  • User Marked Significant Event: 11
  • Creation of an Existing Agent: 10
  • Creation of an Existing General or Interface Class: 9
  • Creation of an Existing Speech Grammar: 8
  • Creation of an Existing Association: 7
  • Creation of an Existing Unrecognized Stroke: 6
  • Text Update: 5
  • Movement: 4
  • Creation of Deleted Object: 3
  • Deletion of an Object: 2
  • Undo/Redo: 1
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Auto-summarization of Design History by Event Ranking
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Design History
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Tahuti Architecture
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Metaglue Agent Architecture
  • Support for synchronous and asynchronous communication among distributed agents
  • Mechanisms for resource discovery and management
  • Robust recovery mechanisms for failed components
  • Built-in persistent storage
  • Support for multimodal interactions through speech, gesture, and graphical user interfaces.
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Impact and Current Use
  • UserStudy
    • Users Prefer Tahuti for drawing and editing UML diagrams over MS Paint or Rationale Rose
  • Deployment
    • Used to teach 65 students Object Oriented Programming at Columbia University
    • Used in the MIT AI Lab Intelligent Room for use in software design meetings.  Currently extending to add speech interface.
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Related Work
  • UML Sketch Recognition
    • Hse – Wizard of Oz – prefer to mouse and palette
    • Ideogramic UML, graffiti-like implementation
    • Queen’s Unversity, based on stroke length
  • UML for Designing Agent Based Systems
    • Odell, Parunak and Bauer
    • Bergenti and Poggi
  • Indexing Audio-Visual Material
    • Brunelli, Mich, and Modena
  • Sketch Recognition to Locate Video Moment
    • Kato, Kurita, Otsu, and Hirata
    • Cho and Yoo
    • Jacobs, Finkelstein, and Salesin
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Future Work
  • Expansion of system
    • Multiplicity Relationships
    • More Symbols
  • Deeper layers of software design
    • Sequence Diagrams
    • Flow Charts
    • Generate More Code
    • Code Editor
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Contributions
  • Agent-based system for capturing and indexing software design meetings
    • Natural Sketch Recognition
    • Supports Multi-Agent Software Design
    • Indexes Design Meeting Videos