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This book provides a comprehensive presentation of artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and tools valuable for solving a wide spectrum of engineering problems. What's more, it offers these AI tools on an accompanying disk with easy-to-use software.
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers details the AI-based methodologies known as: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES); Design Synthesis; Design Critiquing; and Case-Based Reasoning. KBES are the most popular AI-based tools and have been successfully applied to planning, diagnosis, classification, monitoring, and design problems. Case studies are provided with problems in engineering design for better understanding of the problem-solving models using the four methodologies in an integrated software environment.
Throughout the book, examples are given so that students and engineers can acquire skills in the use of AI-based methodologies for application to practical problems ranging from diagnosis to planning, design, and construction and manufacturing in various disciplines of engineering.
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers is a must-have reference for students, teachers, research scholars, and professionals working in the area of civil engineering design in particular and engineering design in general.
List of contents
Chapter 1. IntroductionGeneralDevelopments in Artificial IntelligenceDevelopments in Expert SystemsRole of AI and Expert Systems in EngineeringChapter 2. Search TechniquesIntroductionProblem Definition and Solution ProcessProduction SystemsSearch TechniquesProblem Decomposition and AND-OR GraphsChapter 3. Knowledge-Based Expert SystemIntroductionWhat is KBES?Architecture of KBESChapter 4. Engineering Design SynthesisIntroductionSynthesisDecomposition Model for SynthesisRole of Synthesizer in KBES EnvironmentAn Architecture for a Synthesizer-A Generic Tool Generic Synthesis Tool-GENSYNTChapter 5. Criticism and EvaluationIntroductionMethodologies Used in Knowledge Based EnvironmentA Framework for Critiquing and EvaluationGeneric Critiquing Tool-GENCRITChapter 6. Case-Based ReasoningIntroductionApplications of Case-Based ReasoningCase-Based Reasoning ProcessA Framework for CBR in Engineering Design (CASETOOL)Architecture of CASETOOLApplication ExampleChapter 7. Process Models and Knowledge-Based SystemIntroductionExpert Systems for DiagnosisBlackboard Model of Problem SolvingODESSY-An Integrated System for Preliminary Design of Reinforced Concrete Multistory Office BuildingsConceptual Design of a Car Body ShapeSETHU-An Integrated KBES for Concrete Road Bridge DesignFuture TrendsAppendicesIndex
Summary
This book presents AI techniques and tools valuable for solving a range of engineering problems and provides software on an accompanying disette. Through numerous examples, it help readers acquire skill in the use of AI-based methodologies for application to practical problems ranging from diagnosis to planning, design, and construction and manufacturing in various disciplines of engineering.
