JARED%PLU@AMES-IO.ARPA (09/25/87)
NASA, Ames Research Center
Intelligent Systems Forum
Siu Shing Tong
General Electric
The ENGINEOUS Project at General Electric
Abstract:
The ENGINEOUS project was established in 1985 to address the problem of
designing complex hardware that utilizes a massive number of parameters
and analysis tools. For example, to design an aircraft engine,
approximately 10,000 Fortran programs may be iteratively applied from
conceptual design to final production. The number of relevant parameters
defining a typical engine is estimated to be 300,000. The human
intervention currently required to iterate these programs and parameters,
particularly between programs and disciplines, contributes significantly
to the 7 to 10 years lead time for the development of a new engine.
An experimental system to aid engine designers has been developed and is
being tested. ENGINEOUS makes use of artificial intelligent techniques
(i.e., object oriented programming, knowledge based systems, rapid
prototyping, etc.) to address problems too complex to be effectively
handled by conventional programming techniques. This presentation will
discuss the current status, initial user's experience, and the current
development effort to map ENGINEOUS into a heterogeneous,
distributed/parallel processing environment.
Date: Thursday, October 1, 1987
Time: 1:30PM
Location: Bldg. 258, rm. 127, the auditorium
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David Jared, (415) 694-6525, jared%plu@ames-io.ARPA
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