A prototype for KYBAS: the Kentucky Bridge Analysis System
IEA/AIE '90 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - Volume 2
ConClass: A Framework for Real-Time Distributed Knowledge-Based Processing
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Toward intelligent object-oriented scientific applications
Engineering computational technology
Ontologies for supporting engineering analysis models
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Exception representation and management in open multi-agent systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Oil-weil data interpretation using expert system and pattern recognition technique
IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
SACON: a knowledge-based consultant for structural analysis
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A knowledge-based application definition system
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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In this report we describe an application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to structural analysis. We describe the development and (partial) implementation of an "automated consultant" to advise non-expert engineers in the use of a general-purpose structural analysis program. The analysis program numerically simulates the behavior of a physical structure subjected to various mechanical loading conditions. The automated consultant, called SACON (Structural Analysis CONsultant), is based on a version of the MYCIN program [Shortliffe, 1974], originally developed to advise physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. The domain-specific knowledge in MYCIN is represented as situation-action rules, and is kept independent of the "inference engine" that uses the rules. By substituting structural engineering knowledge for the medical knowledge, the program was converted easily from the domain of infectious diseases to the domain of structural analysis.