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Critique: COSSACK
Frayman, Mittal *

      This paper seems to abandon its stated purpose. The authors say the COSSACK project's purpose in relation to configuration is to:

  1. understand it as a generic problem solving activity
  2. relate it to other kinds of design tasks
  3. identify the different kinds of knowledge and their use

      The authors go on to talk of interesting research issues which don't seem to relate directly to the purpose of the project, or at least are not mentioned as being related. There is an obvious connection between mapping from a configuration problem into a generalized constraint reasoning problem and relating configuration to other design tasks, but other than that, correlations are difficult to draw between the paper's content which mainly discusses the system and research issues, and the stated goals of the project.

      While there are many fine points made about the configuration task hidden in the examples of a system, its workings and the research issues explored, it would have been nice to have a summary of these points and the associated goals of the project.


* F. Frayman & S. Mittal. (1987). COSSACK: A Constraints-Based Expert System for Configuration, In: KBES In Engineering: Planning and Design, (Eds.) D. Sriram & B. Adey, Computational Mechanics Publications, pp. 143-166.

Intro
01-DPMED
02-Dominic
03-DSPL Air-Cyl
04-Pride
05-COSSACK
06-MICOM-M1
07-Configuration Survey
08-Dynamic CSP
09-MOLGEN
10-Failure Handling
11-VT
12-Conflict Resolution
13-Cooperative Negotiation
14-Negotiated Search
15-Multiagent Design
16-Prototypes
17-CBR Survey
18-PROMPT
19-A Design
20-Bogart
21-Cadet
22-Argo
23-Analogy Creativity Survey
24-Algorithm Design
25-AM
26-Edison
27-LEAP
28-Plan Compilation
29-ML Survey
30-Strain Gauge
31-Grammar
32-Config GA
33-Functional First
34-Functional CBR
35-Functional Survey
36-Models
37-First Principles
38-Config Spaces
39-Task Analysis

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