Intelligent computer‐aided‐design systems: a synergical approach of artificial intelligénce and engineering
1990; Wiley; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8640.1990.tb00292.x
ISSN1467-8640
Autores Tópico(s)Semantic Web and Ontologies
ResumoA synergism has begun to surface from the artificial intelligence (AI) and engineering communities: an effort to apply AI techniques to engineering problem‐solving activities, and to study problems arisen from various engineering fields as a way to develop AI theories and methodologies. This paper first discusses the needs of such a synergical approach and identifies in a broad perspective some AI techniques currently being applied to engineering. It then describes a system, called KREATOR, which applies qualitative reasoning, a subfield of AI, to computer‐aided design (CAD). The key observation is that an engineer designer's qualitative knowledge can offer a good basis for the reasoning of device behaviors. Such knowledge, however, is not captured by conventional CAD systems for lack of good representations. KREATOR is a knowledge capturing scheme that allows the designers to record their qualitative knowledge of how mechanical devices behave, KREATOR then automatically generates qualitative simulations.
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