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From: king@rd1632.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Survey of AI systems in Design
Message-ID: <287@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 10:43:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 10:43:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 04:59:48 EST
Reply-To: king@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM (James King)
Organization: R&D, NCR Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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Keywords: design automation, AI, design knowledge, etc.


I am in need of information about one topic and a subtopic.

I am compiling a list of AI systems used in the design phase of:
   - products
   - materials
   - costs
   - scheduling
   - etc.
My focus is on the first two, but any and all are welcome.  I am
looking for AI systems in CAD and in Pre-CAD design.  Typical 
intelligent CAD systems I am interested in assist in:
   - Saving integrity between drawings - products with multiple
     drawings are structured to recognize a change in one drawing
     and pass it to other associated drawings.
   - Management systems in CAD for information, integrity, design
     experience representation, etc.
   - Encapsulation of designer experience into KB's
        - Uses of OOP, frames, etc.
        - Application of situational reasoning
        - Hardware implementations
        - etc.


The second topic deals with developing knowledge bases of designer
experience, techniques, rules in the design phase.  I am interested in the
representational techniques, elicitation techniques, etc. that have been used
to encapsulate the design experience associated with:
        - A part
        - A specific domain
        - An entire system
        - A manufacturing line
        - Etc.

I would appreciate any information on these two areas and associated
topics of Design automation and AI.

Thank you in advance

James A. King     j.a.king@dayton.ncr.com