Integrating diverse information resources in a case-based design environment
D. Leake, K. Hammond, L. Birnbaum, C. Marlow and H. Yang. 1999. Integrating diverse information resources in a case-based design environment. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 12:705-716.
Abstract
The success of case-based design aids depends both on the case-based reasoning processes they apply and on effectively
integrating those processes into the larger task context: on making the case-based reasoning component present case information
at the right time and in the right way, on exploiting additional information resources as needed to supplement the case library
and to guide case application, on capturing useful information from current reasoning and providing it to up- and down-stream
designers, and on unobtrusively learning new cases during the design process. This article presents a set of principles and
techniques for integrated case-based design support systems and illustrates their application through a case study of the
Stamping Advisor, a system to support feasibility analysis for sheet metal automotive parts.