Application of a blackboard framework to a cooperative fixture design system

Computers in Industry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-81

  Roy, Utpal ^a   Liao, Jianmin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackboard system; Cooperative reasoning; Fixture design; GBB

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COOPERATIVE REASONING;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032093412     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3615(98)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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