Computing design rationales by interpreting simulations

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-82

  Stahovich, Thomas F ^a   Raghavan, Anand ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CASUAL REASONING; DESIGN RATIONALES CAPTURE; INTERPRETING SIMULATIONS; QUALITATIVE REASONING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE EXPLAINIT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 0034155613     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.533547     Document Type: Article

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