Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!ucbvax!ailist From: gideon%edai.edinburgh.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Gideon Sahar) Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: Seminar - Intelligent Concept Design Assistant (Edinburgh) Message-ID: <17647.8602271043@edai.edinburgh.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 05:43:01 EST Article-I.D.: edai.17647.8602271043 Posted: Thu Feb 27 05:43:01 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 01:14:20 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: ailist@sri-ai.arpa From: Gideon Sahar EDINBURGH AI SEMINARS Date: Wednesday, 26th February l986 Time: 2.00 p.m. Place: Department of Artificial Intelligence Seminar Room - F10 80 South Bridge EDINBURGH. Dr. K.J. MacCallum, Department of Ship & Marine Technology, University of Strathclyde will give a seminar entitled - "An Intelligent Concept Design Assistant". This paper argues for the introduction of increased knowledge and reasoning capabilities into computer based design systems in such a way that they are able to enact the role of an intelligent assistant to the designer. It is shown that concept design involves a number of different types of knowledge, the most difficult of which to represent in a computer is "worldly" knowledge, either physical or commonsense. Two systems which are being developed to tackle aspects of this problem are described. The first system, called DESIGNER, handles numerical relationships; the second called SPACES is concerned with representing spatial arrangements. Keyords: Design, CAD, Knowledge Representation, Numerical Relationships, Spatial Arrangements.