Steven.Minton@K.CS.CMU.EDU (10/20/86)
This week's seminar is being led by Raul Valdes-Perez. Friday, 3:15
in 7220. Be there. Here's the abstract:
Title: "Automatic Schematics Drafting: Aesthetic Configuration
as a Design Task".
To draft a schematic means to depict (say on paper) the
electrical connections and function of a circuit.
Aspects of this work are the following:
1. A design task that uses other than a production-system architecture.
2. An approach to "space planning" that is modern in the sense of exploiting
dependency-directed backtracking and constraint-posting.
3. The idea of contradicton-fixing rules that exploit the richness of
information when an inconsistency occurs.
4. Study of a linear-inequality-based representation of partial task
solutions, and the properties of this representation.
5. A backtracking scheme suited to the search regimen used.