Proactive Case-Based (CBR) Design Support: Stamping Advisor Home Page
The URL for this index page is
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~leake/projects/stamping_advisor.
Project Description
The Stamping Advisor project investigates the integration of
proactive intelligent design support and knowledge management into the
design process. Its approach is to integrate automatic retrieval and presentation
of cases and other types of information into the designer's normal
task processes, automatically tailoring information selection and
presentation emphasis to fit changing designer needs and attention
flow, and to automatically perform knowledge capture as a byproduct of
the user's task process.
The project investigates methods for developing proactive
integrated design support systems that provide:
- Seamless interaction. Interaction with the combined
system must fit seamlessly into the designer's normal problem-solving
process.
- Just-in-time, context-based retrieval. The system must
proactively anticipate information needs for the current design
subtask, and automatically provide the right information when it is
needed, rather than placing the burden on the user to formulate
requests.
- Knowledge source integration. Retrieval must bring
multiple knowledge sources to bear in a coherent way, both to aid
the task directly and to help determine the applicability of
provided information in the current context.
- Automatic generation of information products and experience
capture. The interface must generate the designer's information
products, using its monitoring of task context to gather needed
information, and must exploit the knowledge it gathers to automatically
store new cases to improve future support.
- Cross-task integration. The interface must support
integration of information across different subtasks of the design
process. This integration should automatically access information
about the previous tasks to provide a context for its information
presentation and should produce products that can be used by downstream
reasoning processes.
Methods for achieving these properties have been implemented in the
Stamping Advisor, a prototype system for supporting design
feasibility analysis for sheet metal automotive parts. The Stamping
Advisor interface automatically provides designers with relevant
information to support feasibility analysis, automatically prepares
their information products, and unobtrusively gathers the information
needed to generate new cases to improve the quality of future support.
The Stamping Advisor main interface screen (click for full-size image)
Papers On-Line
- Integrating Information Resources:
A Case Study of Engineering Design Support
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David B. Leake, Larry Birnbaum, Cameron Marlow, and Hao Yang.
Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR-99,
Springer-Verlag,
Berlin. 15 pages. Winner of Outstanding Application Paper award.
- Task-Based Knowledge Management.
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David B. Leake, Larry Birnbaum, Cameron Marlow, and Hao Yang.
Proceedings of the AAAI-99
Workshop on Exploring Synergies of Knowledge Management and
Case-Based Reasoning. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, 1999. 5 pages.
Project Team
Research on the Stamping Advisor project has been conducted at both Indiana
University and Northwestern University.
The Stamping Advisor project has involved:
Contacts
This page is maintained by David Leake
Computer Science Department, Indiana University.