Toward the integration of knowledge for engineering modeling and computation

Dym, Clive L.; Levitt, Raymond E.

doi:10.1007/bf01206363

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“…Much remains to be investigated towards the integration of engineering knowledge (Dym and Levitt, 1991). It provides a relatively small set of simple and flexible constructs for distributed knowledge representation and strategies for collective inference making.…”

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AGENTS for cooperating expert systems in concurrent engineering design

Huang

Brandon

1993

AIEDAM

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A main theme of concurrent engineering is the effective communication between relevant disciplines. Any computer tools for concurrent engineering must provide sufficient constructs and strategies for this purpose. This paper describes the AGENTS system, a domain-independent general-purpose Object-Oriented Prolog language for cooperating expert systems in concurrent engineering design. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the use of the AGENTS constructs for distributed knowledge representation and the cooperation strategies for communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, and control. A simple case study is presented to illustrate the balance between simplicity and flexibility.

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AGENTS for cooperating expert systems in concurrent engineering design

Huang

Brandon

1993

AIEDAM

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“…Many studies of both design and management have attempted to make the processes involved more efficient through generally defining frameworks and the parameters involved. A more systematic design process, known as “Engineering Design,” is articulated in Dym and Levitt (1991) as “the systematic, intelligent generation and evaluation of specifications for artifacts whose form and function achieve stated objectives and satisfy specified constraints” (p. 209), and indeed, “systematic” and “intelligent” are the two defining characteristics of such a process. Systematicism, of course, implies structure, and intelligence a certain efficiency of the process, in the sense that a complete mapping of the space of ideas (Spitas, 2011) would be tedious, time‐consuming, and impractical in terms of modern product development time allowances.…”

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Incorporating Uncertainty into the Design Management Process

Rajabalinejad

Spitas²

2011

Design Management Journal

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Design and management are ubiquitous words that are used in different contexts. We read or hear about automobile designers, dress designers, architectural designers, system designers, aircraft designers, and so on. We also hear about people who are project managers, office managers, product managers, and the like. In fact, design and management are part of human history, and people have always designed artifacts and managed processes in any way that was necessary.Early designs were well integrated with manufacture; people tested their designs and tried to address their shortcomings or failures. With accumulating experience, rules of thumb and best practices were established. Modeling of phenomena related to product function through physics and other theoretical disciplines augmented predictive power and made it more possible to quantify design parameters a priori.

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“…At least eleven standards or specifications for transferring geometric representations have been created in the past decade [23]. Part of this difficulty stems from engineering knowledge tending to contain both analytic (quantifiable) and qualitative information [20], as well as tacit knowledge not being obviously accessible to outside observers [44], [53].…”

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Concurrent engineering tools: are the human issues being ignored?

King

Majchrzak

1996

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Concurrent Engineering (CE) tools are intended to increase the concurrency of multidisciplinary design by integrating various enabling technologies such as computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, group decision support systems, expert systems, and communication networks. If the long term viability of CE depends on effectively developing and deploying CE tools, the assumptions about how CE design tasks are most successfully performed and the roles of tools in facilitating that work should be carefully reviewed. This paper identifies the human factors assumptions made by the CE tool development community and compares them to conclusions drawn from existing literature on the role of technologies in performing technical work. This comparison suggests that the assumptions made by the CE tool development community are likely to inhibit CE tools from successfully enabling the CE process. Recommendations for remedying this state of affairs are offered in the form of restated assumptions that are consistent with documented behaviors of people using similar technologies and potential development strategies for CE tool developers.

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Toward the integration of knowledge for engineering modeling and computation

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

AGENTS for cooperating expert systems in concurrent engineering design

AGENTS for cooperating expert systems in concurrent engineering design

Incorporating Uncertainty into the Design Management Process

Concurrent engineering tools: are the human issues being ignored?

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