TY - JOUR
T1 - OPSYN
T2 - A cad based expert system for optimum structural synthesis
AU - Chen, Jahau Lewis
AU - Hajela, Prabhat
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1989/5/1
Y1 - 1989/5/1
N2 - This paper presents an overview of an expert system. OPSYN, for optimum structural synthesis, with particular emphasis on the significance of the development environment for such systems. The knowledge base for this system includes rules for facilitating finite element modeling, optimum design modeling, and selection of optimization strategies and parameters. The environment for this development is an inference engine with both forward and backward reasoning capabilities, a detailed explanation facility, and an automated knowledge acquisition system with a knowledge base editor facility. The use of a computer-aided design (CAD) interface with its significant data structure and graphics capabilities in the knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation process is demonstrated with this expert system.
AB - This paper presents an overview of an expert system. OPSYN, for optimum structural synthesis, with particular emphasis on the significance of the development environment for such systems. The knowledge base for this system includes rules for facilitating finite element modeling, optimum design modeling, and selection of optimization strategies and parameters. The environment for this development is an inference engine with both forward and backward reasoning capabilities, a detailed explanation facility, and an automated knowledge acquisition system with a knowledge base editor facility. The use of a computer-aided design (CAD) interface with its significant data structure and graphics capabilities in the knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation process is demonstrated with this expert system.
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U2 - 10.1080/03052158908941215
DO - 10.1080/03052158908941215
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84913486521
VL - 14
SP - 267
EP - 286
JO - Engineering Optimization
JF - Engineering Optimization
SN - 0305-215X
IS - 4
ER -