IPA-Concepts and Applications in Engineering

✍ Scribed by Jerzy Pokojski PhD (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 175
• Series: Decision Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering,carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators. The author has cooperated with designers in Poland and in Germany. Very often there was university–industry cooperation for the building of speci?c so- ware for certain engineering tasks. The majority of the concepts,for example “the designer’s personal assistant”and the decomposition and coordination of multicriteria decision problems, evolved through cooperation with designers in this ?eld. The author,while working together with them,understood that this group of people is characterised by a strong in- vidualism and that the range of applied approaches and methods is wide. The most signi?cant in?uences on the author’s opinions through contact with the designers were the lectures he delivered for more than 12 years for post-graduate studies on computer-aided design in machinery. The lectures included seminars which required the creation of concepts for an individual computer support system for decision processes,generally well known to the designers who participated in the lectures. In the theoretical part the characteristics of the actual computer-aided design and engineering (CAD and CAE) tools were depicted,whereas in the practical part the students created concepts of computer environments for the realisation of design projects in their own professional work. The task was con?ned to the expr- sion of the design process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction to the Problems of Knowledge-based Engineering....Pages 1-26
The Nature of the Personal and the Team-based Design Process....Pages 27-38
Survey of Engineering Knowledge Representations....Pages 39-50
Survey of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software Concepts....Pages 51-56
A Common Model of an Intelligent Personal Assistant Concept....Pages 57-72
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Concepts for Solving Integration....Pages 73-80
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Design Process Modelling....Pages 81-98
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Knowledge Modelling....Pages 99-111
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Optimisation....Pages 113-143
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Implementation....Pages 145-155
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Unified Framework....Pages 157-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-171

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Engineering Design; Control Engineering; Business/Management Science, general