A synergism has begun to surface from the artificial intelligence (AI) and engineering communities: an effort to apply AI techniques to engineering problem-solving activities, and to study problems arisen from various engineering fields as a way to develop AI theories and methodologies. The paper first discusses the needs of such a synergical approach and identifies in a broad perspective some AI techniques currently being applied to engineering. It then describes a system, called KREATOR, which applies qualitative reasoning, a subfield of AI, to computer-aided design (CAD). KREATOR is a knowledge capturing scheme that allows the designers to record their qualitative knowledge of how mechanical devices behave. KREATOR then automatically generates qualitative simulations
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Nihat Kotluk