Automating the Transformational Development of Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on artificial intelligence and software engineering
Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at Kestrel Institute
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on artificial intelligence and software engineering
Domain-Specific Automatic Programming
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on artificial intelligence and software engineering
Knowledge-based software design using design schemas
ICSE '87 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Engineering
Model-based automatic programming for plant control
Proceedings of the sixth conference on Artificial intelligence applications
A Deductive Approach to Program Synthesis
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
The Kowledge-Based Simulation System
IEEE Software
Compiling design plans from descriptions of artifacts and problem solving heuristics
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Industrial plants are controlled using sequence control programs running on programmable controllers. Sequence control program design has been carried out manually, and an increase in applications of programmable controllers has caused a shortage of programmers. Therefore, automatic programming systems are strongly required in this field. Controllers receive operation signals from plant operators and current plant states through sensors, then select actions that have to be executed. Sequence control programs consist of a large amount of control logic (about 100K program steps) for such decisions. The following problems were found in previous manual designs of sequence control programs: First, control logic is often omitted. Second, programs might include some mutual contradictions. Third, information that is necessary to complete one program step is distributed in several different kinds of specification document. It costs too much time for program designers to understand specifications. Fourth, alteration of control specifications often occurs, resulting in a wide range of program modifications. The purpose of the automatic programming system (CAD-pc/AI) described in this chapter is to reduce these difficulties to increase productivity and improve the quality of sequence control program design. Moreover, it aims to facilitate a systematic accumulation of design knowledge.