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Recording and reuse of design strategies in an integrated case-based design system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Jenmu Wang  and
H. Craig Howard
Jenmu Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, 251 Taiwan
H. Craig Howard
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-4020, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Human designers often adopt strategies from previous similar cases to guide their search in new design tasks. We have developed an approach for automated design strategy capture and reuse. That approach has been implemented in DDIS, a prototype structural design system that uses a blackboard framework to integrate case-based and domain-based reasoning. Plans, goals, and critical constraints from user-selected previous cases are combined with case-independent reasoning to solve underconstrained parametric structural design problems. This article presents a detailed example of design strategy recording and reuse in base plate design for electrical transmission poles.

Keywords

Case-based ReasoningDesignPlansStructural Engineering
Type
Research Article
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 219 - 238
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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