Hybrid connectionist symbolic systems have been the subject of much recent research in AI. By focusing on the implementation of high-level human cognitive processes (e.g., rule-ba...
: In this paper, we propose a fundamental idea of a new CAD architecture to facilitate design knowledge management. This architecture is useful to develop an advanced design suppor...
The ubiquity of Windows-based desktop environments has not been matched by a corresponding emergence of tools supporting the Unix tool composition paradigm. Outwit is a suite of t...
The paper presents objectives and results of a series of case studies in computer support for diagnosis, failure mode and effects analysis, and the creation of repair manuals in t...
Predicting the behavior of physical systems is essential to both common sense and engineering tasks. It is made especially challenging by the lack of complete precise knowledge of...