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Chris Cera <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
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Package: MUG
System name: mug
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MUG is a multi-user environment for collaborative conceptual shape design.  It 
is similar to a CAD program, and it is our hope that MUG can be used to 
supplement, or in conjunction with, another CAD program whenever the functional 
representation of a complex artifact, terrain, or architectural structure is 
desired.  It is a tool which allows design engineers and architects to annotate 
the structure-behavior-function (S-B-F) description of an artifact.  This 
description is specified in DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML), a variant of 
the Resource Description Framework (RDF).  Through the use of JavaSpaces, a 
full multi-user session can be started with several clients simultaneously 
working on the same design space.  MUG is able to save and serialize a design 
space as a DAML file, which can also be extended to the serialization of any 
Java objects.  It is our hope that MUG will increase the proliferation, 
availability, and support of semantic ontologies specified in DAML.  MUG 
includes import filters for the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML), so any 
model specified in this format can be imported and exported.  MUG also uses its 
own protocol and library for synchronous mathematical construction of 
Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS), which are used to specify curves and 
surfaces using any number of weighted control points.

MUG has been implemented using Sun Microsystems\' Java, Java3D, XJ3D, Jini, 
JavaSpaces, and Java Media Framework.

http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/MUG/