Selecting and parameterising components using knowledge based configuration and a heuristic that learns and forgets

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1085-1098

  Roller, Dieter ^a   Kreuz, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coupling of CAD and configuration; Forgetting; Machine learning in design; Reuse of CAD models

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE FIRST (RKF);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0041621451     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(02)00180-X     Document Type: Article

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