Knowledge Intensive CAD

Martti Mäntylä is a Professor at the Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Susan Finger is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Tetsuo Tomiyama is a Professor at RACE, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

One Architecture for Knowledge Intensive CAD.- 1 An intellectual infrastructure for integrating design knowledge.- 2 An experimental environment for exchanging engineering design knowledge by cognitive agents.- 3 PICCSS: Problem Interactive Clarification and Concurrent Solving System.- 4 A formal theory for knowledge-based product model representation.- 5 Knowledge based design of complex products by the concept of design working spaces.- Two Methodologies for Knowledge Intensive CAD.- 6 Design innovation guided by modeling assumptions.- 7 On design evaluation based on functional modeling.- Three Design Knowledge Representation.- 8 Case studies of ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework.- 9 Active Catalog: a knowledge-rich design library facilitating information consumption.- 10 Graphical presentation of designs: a knowledge intensive design approach.- 11 The RACE asynchronous collaboration environment project.- 12 Object modeling to localize knowledge for feature interrelationships.- 13 Structuring knowledge of life-cycle consequences for supporting concurrent design exploration.- 14 Classification of geometric design information and manipulation for vague geometric modelling.- 15 Dealing with standard components for knowledge-intensive CAD.- Four Knowledge Intensive Design for the Life-Cycle.- 16 Supporting multiple views in design for manufacture.- 17 Integrating electrical and mechanical design and process planning.- Five Report on Working Groups.- 18 Which way to KIC?.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.