Learning from design experience in an agent-based design system

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 77-92

  Moss, Jarrod ^a   Cagan, Jonathan ^b   Kotovsky, Kenneth ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Cognitive science; Learning; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; LEARNING; SYNTHESIS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 6344289321     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-003-0042-4     Document Type: Article

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