Principles on Collaborations in Cloud-Aided X (CLAX)

In the past few years, the Computer-Aided Technologies, also known as Computer-Aided X (CAX) have been evolving to the Cloud. Cloud computing provides remote services with data storage, software, platform and infrastructure. The next-generation computing applications rely on the collaborations using the technologies of Cloud-Aided Technologies, or Cloud-Aided X (CLAX). The engineers and designers at various locations in different time zones can collaboratively and simultaneously work on a computing design project using CLAX. Issues such as security, conflict, storage, and online computing are inevitable. This paper presents the challenging problems in cloud-based collaborations and some principles for CLAX.Copyright © 2013 by ASME