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Critique: DSPL/AIR-CYL
Brown, Chandrasekaran *

      The main discussion in this paper is around understanding design, or pieces thereof. The breakdown of classes of design and assumptions made seemed intuitive. So far this presents design, or rather possible perspectives of design which are poorly understood, far better than the other system papers we've covered. This is not meant to be critical of the other papers, but rather call out that they were mostly concerned with the particular method(s) used by the system rather than with an overall design philosophy and a way to represent this in a way that a computer system could take advantage of. Then again, this very paper is referenced in PRIDE, DPMED and Dominic.

      While the example used, namely design of air cylinders, demonstrates well the complexity of the problem this system and methodology can be used on, it was lengthy. The paper did a good job of keeping focus on design process but one can only hold an interest for air cylinder dynamics and intricacies for so long.

      Where this paper mentions performance degradation I find the statement "...that as designs get to be only just class 3 the performance of the system will degrade..." unclear. Is this meant to say that attempts by systems to do class 1 design and class 2 design would be more successful than class 3 as the number of dependencies grow?


* D. C. Brown & B. Chandrasekaran (Sept. 1984), Expert Systems for a Class of Mechanical Design Activity, Proc. IFIP WG5.2 Working Conference on AI in CAD, Budapest, Hungary.

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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