gideon%edai.edinburgh.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Gideon Sahar) (02/27/86)
From: Gideon Sahar <gideon%edai.edinburgh.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
EDINBURGH AI SEMINARS
Date: Wednesday, 26th February l986
Time: 2.00 p.m.
Place: Department of Artificial Intelligence
Seminar Room - F10
80 South Bridge
EDINBURGH.
Dr. K.J. MacCallum, Department of Ship & Marine Technology, University
of Strathclyde will give a seminar entitled - "An Intelligent Concept
Design Assistant".
This paper argues for the introduction of increased knowledge and
reasoning capabilities into computer based design systems in such a way
that they are able to enact the role of an intelligent assistant to the
designer. It is shown that concept design involves a number of
different types of knowledge, the most difficult of which to represent
in a computer is "worldly" knowledge, either physical or commonsense.
Two systems which are being developed to tackle aspects of this
problem are described. The first system, called DESIGNER, handles
numerical relationships; the second called SPACES is concerned with
representing spatial arrangements.
Keyords: Design, CAD, Knowledge Representation, Numerical
Relationships, Spatial Arrangements.