This paper reviews two divergent approaches to the development and application of expert systems in manufacturing and suggests that AI researchers and system designers can more effectively contribute to manufacturing solutions by pursuing high performance design rather than reinforcing traditional technocentric assumptions.

In this paper, all of the potential synthesis cases in distributed expert systems (DESs) are identiied based on the relationship between the original evidence sets of solutions, and the types of DESs are classiied based on the relationship of knowledge and available data of expert systems. The innovative ideas are that the relationships among the synthesis cases and the types of DESs are recogn...

Reliability analysis is a design-time activity. The goal is to anticipate problems and suggest product improvements before manufacturing and delivery. Enhanced quality and customer satisfaction along with reduced life-cycle costs are the motivation. Analysts employ models of physical systems to determine points of vulnerability and failure probabilities. Unfortunately, the models of complex sys...

Interest is growing in the application of Knowledge Based Expert Systems ( KBES ) to assist in solving problems in the construction discipline. A number of major research and / or development projects are under way in various US institutions, however, as of the summer of1985, the number was small considering the potential of this new technology .'. A few of the larger design and construction co...

Our interest in causality reasoning in physics was enhanced by the need to formalize reasoning in physics. In medicine, geophysics, and in many other applications areas, expert systems use automated expert reasoning to help the users; see, e.g., (2). We expect that similar systems may be helpful in general theoretical physics as well. To design such systems, we must formalize physicists’ reason...

This paper gives a brief introduction to the system Java Geometry Expert (JGEX). This system consists of three parts: the drawing part, the proving and reasoning part, and the most distinctive part – the part for generating visually dynamic presentation of proofs in plane geometry. The current version of JGEX is beta 0.80, which is available at our website woody: http://woody.cs.wichita.edu.

AI research at CMU is closely integrated with other activities in the Computer Science Department, and to a major degree with ongoing research in the Psychology Department. Although there are over 50 faculty, staff and graduate students involved in various aspects of AI research, there is no administratively (or physically) separate AI laboratory. To underscore the interdisciplinary nature of m...

Computers are indispensible tools for processing and retrieval of the increasing amounts of chemical data. But, especially in spectroscopy, where the knowledge and experience of experts play a major role in the handling of spectroscopic information. Conventional computers will never be able to recognize, associate or interpret information in such an effective way as a human brain. However, they...