Ebook: IPA-Concepts and Applications in Engineering

This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering,carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators. The author has cooperated with designers in Poland and in Germany. Very often there was university–industry cooperation for the building of speci?c so- ware for certain engineering tasks. The majority of the concepts,for example “the designer’s personal assistant”and the decomposition and coordination of multicriteria decision problems, evolved through cooperation with designers in this ?eld. The author,while working together with them,understood that this group of people is characterised by a strong in- vidualism and that the range of applied approaches and methods is wide. The most signi?cant in?uences on the author’s opinions through contact with the designers were the lectures he delivered for more than 12 years for post-graduate studies on computer-aided design in machinery. The lectures included seminars which required the creation of concepts for an individual computer support system for decision processes,generally well known to the designers who participated in the lectures. In the theoretical part the characteristics of the actual computer-aided design and engineering (CAD and CAE) tools were depicted,whereas in the practical part the students created concepts of computer environments for the realisation of design projects in their own professional work. The task was con?ned to the expr- sion of the design process.

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The work of design engineers is very individual, using personal approaches and methods, designers have an individual way of seeing a problem. In practice personal notes are used by every designer, often general comments about technical problems and situations. There are a variety of personal methods of supporting the design process and computer tools can make the whole design process more efficient. In professional practice you continually add to your existing knowledge base (notes), for your own purposes. In this case the intelligent personal assistant fulfils the role of those active notes. Based on real industrial procedures, the process is the result of many years of design experience.

Numerous examples for practical use by professionals and students interested in real implementations of knowledge based systems in engineering.

Two major ideas are connected: a computer system integrating computer design tools and a computer system fulfilling the role of an intelligent personal assistant.

This user-friendly approach to the main ideas, concepts and techniques of an intelligent personal assistant, demonstrates it's unique position as a significant and fruitful knowledge based technique in engineering design.

Uniquely, the book deals with areas specifically important to designers, knowledge engineers and engineering software designers.

This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an ?€?Intelligent Personal Assistant. The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues, Alex M Andrew, Kybernetes 34(5).

 

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The work of design engineers is very individual, using personal approaches and methods, designers have an individual way of seeing a problem. In practice personal notes are used by every designer, often general comments about technical problems and situations. There are a variety of personal methods of supporting the design process and computer tools can make the whole design process more efficient. In professional practice you continually add to your existing knowledge base (notes), for your own purposes. In this case the intelligent personal assistant fulfils the role of those active notes. Based on real industrial procedures, the process is the result of many years of design experience.

Numerous examples for practical use by professionals and students interested in real implementations of knowledge based systems in engineering.

Two major ideas are connected: a computer system integrating computer design tools and a computer system fulfilling the role of an intelligent personal assistant.

This user-friendly approach to the main ideas, concepts and techniques of an intelligent personal assistant, demonstrates it's unique position as a significant and fruitful knowledge based technique in engineering design.

Uniquely, the book deals with areas specifically important to designers, knowledge engineers and engineering software designers.

This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an ?€?Intelligent Personal Assistant. The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues, Alex M Andrew, Kybernetes 34(5).

 

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction to the Problems of Knowledge-based Engineering....Pages 1-26
The Nature of the Personal and the Team-based Design Process....Pages 27-38
Survey of Engineering Knowledge Representations....Pages 39-50
Survey of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software Concepts....Pages 51-56
A Common Model of an Intelligent Personal Assistant Concept....Pages 57-72
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Concepts for Solving Integration....Pages 73-80
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Design Process Modelling....Pages 81-98
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Knowledge Modelling....Pages 99-111
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Optimisation....Pages 113-143
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Implementation....Pages 145-155
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Unified Framework....Pages 157-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-171

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The work of design engineers is very individual, using personal approaches and methods, designers have an individual way of seeing a problem. In practice personal notes are used by every designer, often general comments about technical problems and situations. There are a variety of personal methods of supporting the design process and computer tools can make the whole design process more efficient. In professional practice you continually add to your existing knowledge base (notes), for your own purposes. In this case the intelligent personal assistant fulfils the role of those active notes. Based on real industrial procedures, the process is the result of many years of design experience.

Numerous examples for practical use by professionals and students interested in real implementations of knowledge based systems in engineering.

Two major ideas are connected: a computer system integrating computer design tools and a computer system fulfilling the role of an intelligent personal assistant.

This user-friendly approach to the main ideas, concepts and techniques of an intelligent personal assistant, demonstrates it's unique position as a significant and fruitful knowledge based technique in engineering design.

Uniquely, the book deals with areas specifically important to designers, knowledge engineers and engineering software designers.

This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an ?€?Intelligent Personal Assistant. The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues, Alex M Andrew, Kybernetes 34(5).

 

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction to the Problems of Knowledge-based Engineering....Pages 1-26
The Nature of the Personal and the Team-based Design Process....Pages 27-38
Survey of Engineering Knowledge Representations....Pages 39-50
Survey of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software Concepts....Pages 51-56
A Common Model of an Intelligent Personal Assistant Concept....Pages 57-72
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Concepts for Solving Integration....Pages 73-80
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Design Process Modelling....Pages 81-98
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Knowledge Modelling....Pages 99-111
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Optimisation....Pages 113-143
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Implementation....Pages 145-155
Intelligent Personal Assistant — Unified Framework....Pages 157-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-171
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