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The CASCADE System:
A Design Overview

Vichita Vathanophas and Michael Spring

Mon Dec 16 14:40:47 EST 1996

• Contents
• Introduction
• Overview
  • What CASCADE does
  • Plans for the Development of CASCADE
• Goals of the CASCADE System
• Architecture and Structure of CASCADE
  • Structural Architecture
  • Agent Architecture
    • Agent Control Architecture
    • Types of Agents
    • Individual Agent Architecture
    • Agent Interactions
  • Operational Architecture
• Functional Overview of CASCADE
  • CASCADE Menu Choices
  • Manipulating Documents and Comments in CASCADE
    • The Commenting Process
    • Putting in a Standard Comment
    • Inserting a Non-System Generated Comment
    • Automatic Link Insertion
    • Reviewing Comments and Traversing Links
    • Reviewing and Classifying Comments
    • Deleting Links and Components
  • Navigation in CASCADE
    • Docuverse
    • Webview
    • Landmarks
    • Preview
  • CASCADE Agents
    • Existing Agents
    • Selected Planned Agents
  • Information Aided Processes
    • Reporting on Activity
    • Reporting on Comments
    • Mail
    • Printing
• Data Streams in CASCADE
  • User Activity
  • Gross Actions
  • Micro Activity
• Agent Preference File
• Color Use in CASCADE
• A Few Notes about CASCADE Idiosyncrasies
• Getting Started in an Individual Session
• References
• About this document ...