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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 36
INFORMATION REPRESENTATION AND DELIVERY IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DESIGN
Edited by: B. Kumar and A. Retik
Paper V.5

A Logic-based Environment for Reactive Agents in Intelligent CAD Systems

J. Bento* and B. Feij#

*Department of Civil Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
#Intelligent CAD Laboratory, Department of Computing, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Laboratory of Concurrent Engineeing, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Bento, B. Feij, "A Logic-based Environment for Reactive Agents in Intelligent CAD Systems", in B. Kumar, A. Retik, (Editors), "Information Representation and Delivery in Civil and Structural Engineering Design", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 135-142, 1996. doi:10.4203/ccp.36.5.5
Abstract
This paper is an evolution of a previous article by the authors motivated by the need to provide computational support to an agent-based implementation of design processes. It presents a new programming environment to support the development of CAD systems based on a hybrid agent architecture in which the symbolic reasoning is carried out by first-order logic. The reactive behaviour of the agents can be achieved through a number of characteristics proposed for the object-oriented environment. This environment is also a general proposal for representing engineering design knowledge in which logic is integrated into an object-oriented paradigm.

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