WORLD SURVEY OF COMPUTER-AIDED-DESIGN

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, was e stablished at the end of 1972 as a joint creation of countries from bo th East and West. IIASA is a nongovernmental, multinational autonomous scientific institution, founded for the purpose of research into prob lems which are either global (knowing no frontiers) or universal (appl ying to all nations), and into the application of systems analysis to their solution. IIASA is situated at Schloss Laxenburg, near Vienna, A ustria, and scientists from all the member nations work together on va rious research projects, some of which tackle specific problem areas, and others of which develop methodologies in a general context. Early in 1974, the industrial-systems project identified computer-aided desi gn as a developing technology which would be likely to influence the d evelopment of industry considerably. in collaboration with the compute r-systems project, the industrial-systems project commissioned a world -wide survey of CAD. The survey covers many countries in both Eastern and Western Europe, and includes the USA and Japan.