Università degli studi di Udine
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica


Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory


Automatic Design Group


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Goals

This research project has two major goals.
The first goal is to show the appropriateness of the multimodeling approach for representing physical systems, which has been already been succesfully employed for diagnosis, for engineering design tasks, in particular conceptual design.The Multimodeling approach supports the representation of several types of knowledge about an artifact such as structural, behavioral, functional and teleological knowledge. Moreover, it provides a general and theoretically founded framework for organizing and using multiple representations in a cooperative way for problem solving. Because design specification is usually expressed in a language far remote from solution description, this feature is used to support the conceptual translation as from goals, into functions, then into the artifact's behavior, and finally, into its structure the design effects.
The second goal is to develop a general theory for task adaptive multistrategy design that aims at dynamically combining a range of different design strategies such as transformational design, design from first principles, and prototype based (or case based) design, in more powerful application systems that can take advantages of the strenghts of each approach and thus can be potentially applied to a much wider range of practical design problems.
Current research work focuses on techniques for run-time assessment and prediction of solution quality during conceptual design.


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