Interoperability Support by Integration of EXPRESS Models

Interoperability of various tools is a major goal of the development of frameworks and design environments. Tools are supposed to work cooperatively together, i.e. they have to work on common data and to exchange their results. Unfortunately, quite often different tools work on different internal models of the world, the framework’s database may provide an additional model, and if more than one framework is involved, it is very likely that it does provide yet another model.