authors |
Kalay, Yehuda E. |
year |
1985 |
title |
Knowledge-Based Computer-Aided Design to Assist Designers of Physical Artifacts |
source |
1985. [15] p. : ill. includes bibliography |
summary |
The objectives of this project are to increase the productivity of physical designers, and to improve the quality of designed artifacts and environments. The means for achieving these objectives include the development, implementation and verification of a broad-based methodology to be used for building context-sensitive computer-aided design systems to facilitate the design and fabrication of physical artifacts. Such systems will extend computer aides for design over the earliest phases of the design process and thus facilitate design-capture in addition to the common design-communication utilities they currently provide. They will thus constitute intelligent design assistants that will relieve the designer from the necessity to deal with some design details, as well as the need to explicitly manage the consistency of the design database. The project employs principles developed by Artificial Intelligence methods that are used in non-deterministic problem solving processes that represent data and knowledge in distributed networks. Principles such as object-centered data factorization and message-based change propagation techniques are implemented in an existing architectural computer-aided design system and field-tested in a practicing Architectural/Engineering office |
keywords |
CAD, knowledge base, design methods, design process, architecture |
series |
CADline |
email |
kalay@socrates.berkeley.edu |
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