Presidential Young Investigator Award: Knowledge Engineering in Design and Manufacturing

总统青年研究员奖：设计和制造中的知识工程

• 批准号: 8957860
• 负责人: Steven Kim
• 金额: $ 12.45万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-10-01 至 1992-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8957860&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Presidential; Young; Investigator; Award; Knowledge

This research effort is directed toward the development of theoretical foundations and software tools to serve as the basis for supporting engineering design and manufacturing automation. These objectives require a synergistic interaction between theory and practice. A substantial amount of effort over the past few years has been dedicated toward the development of theoretical models by adopting previous work in information theory, computability theory, symbolic logic, and design methodology. This has been complemented by adopting existing techniques in artificial intelligence and extending them to new applications. A common theme in this research activity is found in the transformational model of productive effort, from an initial functional specification to the final product. This perspective has served as a unifying theme in fundamental investigations for both the design and manufacturing components. The research plan over the next five years is to work with industrial collaborators to further refine the preliminary models and theories developed thus far, and to generate software tools robust enough to accommodate the practical rigors of real-world applications. The challenges of the envisioned work imply a high-risk, high-pay-off program for which a Presidential Young Investigator award would represent a major resource for turning the vision into reality.

这项研究的目的是开发作为支持工程设计和制造自动化的基础的理论基础和软件工具。这些目标需要理论和实践之间的协同互动。在过去的几年里，通过采用信息论、可计算性理论、符号逻辑和设计方法论中的先前工作，大量的工作致力于理论模型的开发。此外，还采用了人工智能领域的现有技术，并将其扩展到新的应用领域。这项研究活动的一个共同主题是从最初的功能规范到最终产品的生产努力的转换模型。这一观点在设计和制造部件的基础研究中都是一个统一的主题。未来五年的研究计划是与行业合作者合作，进一步完善迄今开发的初步模型和理论，并生成足够强大的软件工具，以适应现实世界应用程序的实际严格要求。这项设想工作的挑战意味着一个高风险、高回报的计划，总统青年调查员奖将是将这一愿景变成现实的主要资源。