Cooperating Expert Systems in Mechanical Design
Published on 1. October 1993
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272 pages
978-0-471-94157-6 (ISBN)
Description
Existing texts on artificial intelligence expert systems and knowledge-based systems on the whole treat only narrow application domains, while many practising engineers use expert systems to solve complicated design problems. The theme of this book is to extend the range of problem solving by the use of cooperating expert design systems. It is concerned with the theory and implementation of a computational infrastructure that enables system designers to achieve the requisite trade-offs for a good overall balance of design among, for example, heterogeneous design tools. Case studies are included.
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English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-471-94157-6 (9780471941576)
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Preface. Introduction: General Motivations; Human Experts and Expert Systems; Distributed AI and Cooperating Expert Systems; The AGENTS Approach; Objectives; Scope of Activities; Summary. Architeture for Cooperating Expert systems: Introduction; Distributed AI and Cooperating Expert Systems; Approaches to Systems Integration; Issues of Cooperating Expert Systems; Agent-Based Cooperative Architecture; Potential Applications in Manufacturing Design; Summary. The Management of Design Complexity: Introduction; Origins of Design Complexity; Domain Abstraction; Network Representations of Domain Complexity; Evolution of Design Complexing; Life-Cycle Complexity; Summary. Cooperative Design Problem Solving: Introduction; Cooperation in Design Problem Solving; Model of Cooperative Design; Strategies for Cooperative Design; Summary. AGENTS: An Object-Oriented Prolog: Introduction; Object-Oriented Prolog; Agents and Objects; Abstractions and Inheritances; Message Passing and Processing; Constraints on Predicates; Summary. Programming in AGENTS: Introduction; AGENTS Features; The AGENTS Architecture; The Agent Architecture; AGENTS Development; Summary. Design with AGENTS: Introduction; Design Methods; Agent-Based Design: The "Robot-Blocks" Example; Agent-Based Conceptual Design; Agent-Based Layout Configuration; Summary. Conceptual Configuration of Machine Tools: Introduction; Conceptual Configuration; Requirement Processing; KB Conceptual Design; Configuration; Summary. Comparative Appraisal of Alternative Approaches to Cooperative Design: Introduction; Computational Environments for Cooperative Work; KB Cooperation in Design and Manufacturing; Future Improvements to AGENTS; Summary. Conclusions. List of References. Appendices. Appendix A BNF Specification AGENTS. Appendix B The POPLOG Core Prolog System. Appendix C List of Sample AGENTS Programs. Appendix D Reference guide to AGENTS. Appendix E Glossary of selected Terminology. Index.