COMPOSER: A case-based reasoning system for engineering design

Robotica

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-295

  Purvis, Lisa ^a   Pu, Pearl ^b  

^a XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automated design; Case based reasoning; COMPOSER; Constraint satisfaction algorithm; Engineering design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CASE BASED REASONING SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE COMPOSER;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0032074568     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574798000368     Document Type: Article

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