Presidential Young Investigator Award: Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory

这位新资助的总统年轻人提出的研究 研究人员将探索决策的自动化， 工程设计和制造任务，高于 传统的以计算机为基础的数字自动化 数控机床和机器人。 主要目标是实现 计算机环境，工程师可以在其中获取、表示和 在决策过程中利用领域知识。 这 将涉及研究整合不同类型的 问题解决方法、建模方法和领域知识。 由此产生的计算机辅助工程环境将包括 确定性，观察性和启发性知识，并应 支持工程师在分析和合成方面， 决策的 研究活动将在密切 与行业赞助商合作，并将包括创建一个 智能决策框架，合作社的发展 决策范式和基本环节调查 决定和行动之间的关系。 资金将与 计算工程计划，这是感兴趣的方面， 并行计算的研究。

The proposed research by this newly-funded Presidential Young Investigator will explore the automation of decision-making for engineering design and manufacturing tasks, at a level above that of the conventional computer-based automation of Numerically Controlled (NC) machines and robots. The main goal is to achieve a computer environment in which engineers can acquire, represent, and utilize domain knowledge in their decision-making processes. This will involve research in integrating different types of problem-solving methods, modeling approaches, and domain knowledge. The resulting computer-aided engineering environment will encompass deterministic, observational, and heuristic knowledge, and should support engineers in both the analysis and synthesis aspects of decision-making. The research activities will be conducted in close cooperation with industry sponsors, and will include creation of an intelligent decision-making framework, development of a cooperative decision-making paradigm, and investigation of fundamental links between decisions and actions. Funding will be shared with the Computational Engineering Program, which is interested in the aspect of the research addressing parallel computations.