Qualitative analysis of MOS circuits
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on qualitative reasoning about physical systems
PRIDE: An Expert System for the Design of Paper Handling Systems
Computer - Special issue on expert systems in engineering
Invention from first principles: an overview
Artificial intelligence at MIT expanding frontiers
Introduction to Switching Theory and Logical Design
Introduction to Switching Theory and Logical Design
The Origins of Feedback Control
The Origins of Feedback Control
Computation and Pre-Parametric Design
Computation and Pre-Parametric Design
Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
A Simple Model of Circuit Design
A Simple Model of Circuit Design
A Circuit Grammar for Operational Amplifier Design
A Circuit Grammar for Operational Amplifier Design
LEAP: a learning apprentice for VLSI design
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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An inventor who is skilled at constructing innovative designs is distinguished, not just by the first principles he knows, but by the way he uses these principles and how he focusses the search for novel devices among an overwhelming space of possibilities. We propose that an appropriate focus for design is the network of qualitative interactions between quantities, (called an interaction topology), used by a device to achieve its desired behavior. We present an approach, called interaction-based invention, which views design as a process of building interaction topologies -- in this paper directly from first principles. The program Ibis, which embodies this approach, designs simple hydro-mechanical regulators, analogous to devices that were fundamental to the development of feedback control theory.