SALT: a knowledge acquisition language for propose-and-revise systems
Artificial Intelligence
BACKBORD: an implementation of specification by reformulation
Intelligent user interfaces
CADET: a case-based synthesis tool for engineering design
International Journal of Expert Systems - Special issue on case-based reasoning
A description classifier for the predicate calculus
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Task modeling with reusable problem-solving methods
Artificial Intelligence
Adaptive forms: an interaction paradigm for entering structured data
IUI '98 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Active catalog: a knowledge-rich design library facilitating information consumption
Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.2 international conference on Knowledge intensive CAD volume 2
Query processing in the SIMS information mediator
Readings in agents
User studies of an interdependency-based interface for acquiring problem-solving knowledge
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Acquiring Problem-Solving Knowledge from End Users: Putting Interdependency Models to the Test
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A script-based approach to modifying knowledge-based systems
A script-based approach to modifying knowledge-based systems
Knowledge analysis on process models
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A methodology for engineering ontology acquisition and validation
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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The exponential growth of the Internet and increasing communication and computational power have created many opportunities for advancing engineering, manufacturing, and business activities. Among them are electronic catalogs. These have become basic information resources to a number of people, ranging from shoppers looking for personal items to engineers selecting electromechanical parts to build a product. Although rich in content, current catalog systems are limited both in search quality and in realizing the full potential of the retrieved information. The active catalog system brings a conceptually new idea to electronic commerce by providing a new, computationally usable, catalog information environment about components and their use in applications. It utilizes a rich body of domain knowledge to facilitate access and retrieval of component information. The utility of retrieved information is enhanced by using it to rapidly construct simulation programs and test alternatives, supporting a “try before you buy” paradigm in which users evaluate candidate components within simulations of their design. We describe services provided in the active catalog system to support engineers in selecting and evaluating electromechanical components and subsystems. The services include mechanisms for creating queries for parts based on their intended use rather than merely parametric specifications, refining those queries to take account of constraints imposed by domain knowledge, providing multimodal information to help engineers assess and compare candidate parts, and generating simulation models for candidate parts and integrating them to provide simulation models for candidate systems.