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Results

One of the test cases for the prototyping environment is shown in Figure 5. In this case, the optimal design subsystem sent a data-change message to the CI. The CI in turn sent lock messages to all other subsystems notifying them that no changes will be accepted until they receive a final acknowledgment message. Then, the CI applied the relations and checked the design constraints. In this test case the constraints were satisfied, so the CI sent these changes to the subsystems that needed to be notified. After that, the CI waited for acknowledgments from the subsystems. In this case it received positive acknowledgments from the specified subsystems. Finally, the CI updated the database and sent final acknowledgment messages to all subsystems.