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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 17
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS FOR CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper XI.2

Representing Design Cases

B. Raphael and B. Kumar

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
B. Raphael, B. Kumar, "Representing Design Cases", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Knowledge Based Systems for Civil & Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 259-264, 1993. doi:10.4203/ccp.17.11.2
Abstract
Case-based reasoning or Analogical reasoning involves storing cases (or examples) of problems and solutions and using this case-base to solve new problems. Its application in design, in general, and structural design, in particular, has a fairly recent history and is thus still in its infancy. Representation of design cases is an important issue in the development of Case Based Design Systems. The requirements of a representation scheme for design cases are discussed in this paper. A new representation scheme has been proposed that enables not only directly making use of past design cases, but also enables reasoning about the designs.

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