Functional modeling for enabling adaptive design of devices for new environments

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 417-444

  Prabhakar, Sattiraju ^a   Goel, Ashok K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Design; Environmental interactions; Functional modeling; Reuse of experiences

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

ENVIRONMENTALLY BOUND STRUCTURE BEHAVIOR FUNCTIONS (ESBF); ENVIRONMENTALLY DRIVEN ADAPTIVE MODELING (EAM); FUNCTIONAL MODELING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032188656     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(98)00003-X     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. McDermott, J. R1: a rule-based configurer of computer systems. Artificial Intelligence, 1982, 19, 39-88.
2. Brown, D. C. & Chandrasekaran, B., Design Problem Solving: Knowledge Structures and Control Strategies. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989.
3. Mittal, S., Dym, C. and Morjaria, M. PRIDE: an expert system for the design of paper handling systems. IEEE Computer, 1986, 19(7), 102-114.
4. Steinberg, L. I., Design as refinement plus constraint propagation: the VEXED experience. In Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987, pp. 830-835.
5. Marcus, S., Stout, J. and McDermott, J. VT: an expert elevator designer that uses knowledge-based backtracking. AI Magazine, 1987, 8(4), 41-58.
6. Vescovi, M., Iwasaki, Y. & Fikes, R., CFRL: a language for specifying the causal functionality of engineering devices. In Proceedings of AAAI-93, 1993.
7. Gero, J. Design prototypes: a knowledge representation schema for design. AI Magazine, 1990, 11(4), 26-36.
8. Umeda, Y., Ishii, M., Yoshioka, M. & Tomiyama, T., Experimental use and extension of the FBS modeller. In Representing and Reasoning about Device Function Workshop Notes, AAAI-94, Seattle, WA, 1994.
9. Prabhakar, S. & Goel, A. (eds), Workshop Notes on Functional Modelling in Design, Artificial Intelligence in Design Conference '96, Stanford University, USA, 1996.
10. Goel, A., Model revision: a theory of incremental model learning. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Chicago, June 1991. Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA, pp. 605-609.
11. Balazs, M. E. & Brown, D. C., Function in design presentations. In Workshop Notes on Functional Modelling in Design, Artificial Intelligence in Design Conference '96, ed. S. Prabhakar & A. Goel. Stanford University, USA, 1996.
12. Chandrasekaran, B. & Josephson, J. R., A definition of device function for design activity. In Workshop Notes on Functional Modelling in Design, Artificial Intelligence in Design Conference '96, ed. S. Prabhakar & A. Goel. Stanford University, USA, 1996.
13. Goel, A. & Chandrasekaran, B., Case-based design: a task analysis. In Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Engineering Design, Volume II: Innovative Design, ed. C. Tong & D. Sriram. Academic, San Diego, 1992, pp. 165-184.
14. Navinchandra, D., Exploration and Innovation in Design: Towards a Computational Model. Springer, New York, 1991.
15. Navinchandra, D., Sycara, K. and Narasimhan, S. A transformational approach to case-based synthesis. AI EDAM, 1991, 5(1), 31-45.
16. Goel, A., A model-based approach to case adaptation, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, August 1991. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991, pp. 143-148.
17. Goel, A. & Chandrasekaran, B., Functional representation of designs and redesign problem solving. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89), Detroit, MI, August 1989. Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA, 1989, pp. 1388-1394.
18. Sun, A. & Faltings, B., Supporting creative mechanical design. In Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Design Conference 1994, ed. J. Gero and F. Sudweeks. Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1994.
19. Bhatta, S. & Goel, A., Learning generic mechanisms from experiences for analogical reasoning. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, CO, 1993, pp. 237-242.
20. Bhatta, S. & Goel, A., From design cases to generic mechanisms. Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Special Issue on Machine Learning, 1996, 10, 131-136.
21. Larsson, J. E. Diagnosis based on explicit means-end models. Artificial Intelligence, 1996, 80, 29-93.
22. Chittaro, L., Functional diagnosis and prescription of measurements using efforts and flow variables. IEE Control Theory and Applications, 1995, 142, 420-432.
23. Kumar, A. and Upadhyaya, S. Function-based candidate discrimination during model-based diagnosis. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1995, 9(1), 65-80.
24. Bhatta, S., Goel, A. & Prabhakar, S., Innovation in analogical design: a model-based approach. In Artificial Intelligence in Design '94, ed. J. S. Gero & F. Sudweeks. Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1994, pp. 57-74.
25. Prabhakar, S. & Goel, A. K., Performance driven creativity in design: constraint discovery, model revision, and case composition. In Second International Round-Table Conference on Computational Models of Creative Design, ed. J. S. Gero & F. Sudweeks, December 1992, pp. 101-127.
26. Prabhakar, S. & Goel, A., Learning about novel operating environments: designing by adaptive modelling. In Artificial Intelligence in Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Vol. 10. Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 151-156.
27. Prabhakar, S. & Goel, A., Extending functional models for non-local adaptations in engineering device design. In Proceedings of the 9th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Key West, FL, May 1996, pp. 369-374.
28. Prabhakar, S., Goel, A. & Bhatta, S., Adaptive modelling in the design of interactive devices. In Third International Round-Table Conference on Computational Models of Creative Design, ed. J. S. Gero and F. Sudweeks, December 1995, pp. 267-302.
29. Langley, B. C., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. Reston, Reston, VA, 1978.
30. Trott, A. R., Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, 2nd edn. Butterworth, London, 1989.
31. Stroulia, E. & Goel, A., Generic teleological mechanisms and their use in case-adaptation. In Proceedigns of the 14th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, IN, 1992, pp. 319-324.
32. Bhatta, S. & Goel, A., Model-based discovery of physical principles from design experiences. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Special Issue on Machine Learning in Design, 1994, 8(2), 113-123.
33. Goel, A. & Prabhakar, S., A control architecture for redesign and design verification. In Proceedings of the 1994 Second Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, Brisbane, Australia, 1994, pp. 377-381.
34. Chittaro, L., Guida, G., Tasso, C. and Toppano, E. Functional and teleological knowledge in the multimodelling approach for reasoning about physical systems: a case study. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1993, 23(6), 1718-1751.
35. Sembugamoorthy, V. & Chandrasekaran, B., Functional representation of devices and compilation of diagnostic problem solving systems. In Experience, Memory and Reasoning, ed. J. Kolodner and C. Riesbeck. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1986.
36. Umeda, Y., Takeda, T., Tomiyama, T. & Yoshikawa, H., Function behavior and structure. In Proceedings of 5th IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Vol. 1. IEEE Press, 1990, pp. 177-193.
37. Bylander, T. & Chandrasekaran, B., Understanding behavior using consolidation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1985, pp. 450-454.
38. Hinrichs, T. & Kolodner, J., The roles of adaptation in case-based design. In Proceedings of the AAAI-91, AAAI Press/ MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.