Knowledge is a requirement for concurrent engineering, and therefore an approach to capture and organise the different knowledge to be taken into account in concurrent engineering is proposed. This approach, known as the "MEthodology for Knowledge Engineering for Concurrent Engineering" (MEKECE) is a dedicated application of knowledge engineering methodologies to concurrent engineering that inv...

consists of a small knowledge-based system teaching and assisting designers of interactive applications in selecting appropriate interaction styles for a particular context of use. As any other tool for working with guidelines, five development milestones have been browsed. Guidelines for selecting interaction styles have been captured in a knowledge-base system as selections among an available...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a method to cut conductive materials with a thin electrode that follows a programmed path. The electrode is a thin wire. Typical diameters range from .004" - .012" (.10mm - .30mm) although smaller and larger diameters are available. WEDM is a thermal machining process capable of accurately machining parts with varying hardness or complex shapes. WED...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a method to cut conductive materials with a thin electrode that follows a programmed path. The electrode is a thin wire. Typical diameters range from .004" - .012" (.10mm - .30mm) although smaller and larger diameters are available. WEDM is a thermal machining process capable of accurately machining parts with varying hardness or complex shapes. WED...

The paper presents possibilities of improving design and manufacturing preparation processes of configurable (variant) products in scope of realization of mass customization strategy. Knowledge based engineering tools are presented as a base for building systems for automation of design and manufacturing preparation. Methodologies of building KBE systems are presented and described, authors’ ow...

introduction: organizational memory (om) is a tool for implementation of knowledge management. the objective of this study was designing an om for medical records (mr) departments. methods: this descriptive study was carried out in 2007. the study population consisted of all employees in five teaching hospitals in tabriz. process and required knowledge identification was performed through quest...

Knowledge-based recommenders support an easier comprehension of complex item assortments (e.g., financial services and electronic equipment). In this paper we show (1) how such recommenders can be developed in a Human Computation based knowledge acquisition environment (PEOPLEVIEWS) and (2) how the resulting recommendation knowledge can be exploited in a competition-based e-Learning environment...

The main general problem that we want to address is the reconfiguration of dialogue systems to work with a generic plug-and-play device. This paper describes our research in designing knowledge-based everyday devices that can be dynamically adapted to spoken dialogue systems. We propose a model for ubiquitous knowledge representation that enables the spoken dialogue system to be aware of the de...

Knowledge-based systems (KBSs) or expert systems (ESs) are able to solve problems generally through the application of knowledge representing a domain and a set of inference rules. In knowledge engineering (KE), the use of KBSs in the real world, three principal disadvantages have been encountered. First, the knowledge acquisition process has a very high cost in terms of money and time. Second,...

At the present state of art, generating a rule base is one of the main challenges in the area of knowledge-based systems. The present work attempts to automate the parts of the process of knowledge acquisition by using neural networks with rule extraction techniques. This paper presents a methodology composed of four phases to generate a representation formalism based on quantiied rules of n-ar...