IPA - Concepts and Applications in Engineering / Edition 1

by Jerzy Pokojski

Overview

This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering,carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators. The author has cooperated with designers in Poland and in Germany. Very often there was university–industry cooperation for the building of specific so- ware for certain engineering tasks. The majority of the concepts,for example “the designer’s personal assistant”and the decomposition and coordination of multicriteria decision problems, evolved through cooperation with designers in this field. The author,while working together with them,understood that this group of people is characterised by a strong in- vidualism and that the range of applied approaches and methods is wide. The most significant influences on the author’s opinions through contact with the designers were the lectures he delivered for more than 12 years for post-graduate studies on computer-aided design in machinery. The lectures included seminars which required the creation of concepts for an individual computer support system for decision processes,generally well known to the designers who participated in the lectures. In the theoretical part the characteristics of the actual computer-aided design and engineering (CAD and CAE) tools were depicted,whereas in the practical part the students created concepts of computer environments for the realisation of design projects in their own professional work. The task was confined to the expr- sion of the design process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852337414
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	10/02/2003
Series:	Decision Engineering
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

to the Problems of Knowledge-based Engineering.- The Nature of the Personal and the Team-based Design Process.- Survey of Engineering Knowledge Representations.- Survey of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software Concepts.- A Common Model of an Intelligent Personal Assistant Concept.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Concepts for Solving Integration.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Design Process Modelling.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Knowledge Modelling.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Optimisation.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Implementation.- Intelligent Personal Assistant — Unified Framework.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"This is an extremely comprehensive and thoughtful survey of the possibilities of computer assistance to a design engineer, and their realisation in an ‘Intelligent Personal Assistant’. The undertaking of an engineering project is considered in detail, from initial jottings through successive refinement requiring reference to data and catalogues, and employment of software facilities for computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE), as well as consultation with colleagues. … There is a very great deal of valuable material here … ." (Alex M. Andrew, Kybernetes, Vol. 34 (5), 2005)

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