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A design-plan-oriented methodology for applying case-based adaptation to engineering design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

TALAL AL-SHIHABI
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.
IBRAHIM ZEID
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A.

Abstract

Adaptation of design cases is usually the most challenging part in building any case-based reasoning design system. The success of the adaptation process in finding a solution for a new design problem determines the success of the entire case-based reasoning (CBR) system. The techniques used for generating design solutions have many common aspects among the various engineering design classes that make them amenable to be captured in a generic framework for an acceptable level of abstraction. This paper proposes a design-plan-oriented methodology for adapting design cases to produce a solution to a new design problem in the domain of engineering design. The proposed methodology uses multicase adaptation and case built-in adaptation knowledge to produce a design plan for a new design problem. We first define the model of case representation to work with the proposed methodology. We then define the overall structure of the procedural framework of this methodology and its subprocesses. The system is then demonstrated through an application from the structural engineering domain.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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