An ontology-driven decision support system for high-performance and cost-optimized design of complex railway portal frames

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8784-8792

  Saa, Ruben ^a   Garcia, Alberto ^a   Gomez, Carlos ^a   Carretero, Jesus ^a   Garcia Carballeira, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex structures; Expert knowledge; Intelligent CAD tools; Ontologies; Railway systems; Rule based systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONSTRUCTION TIME; DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGNING COMPLEX; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; INTELLIGENT CAD TOOLS; INTELLIGENT COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; PORTAL FRAME; RAILWAY STANDARDS; RAILWAY SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC RAILROADS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROADS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84859209433     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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