Presidential Young Investigator Award: Knowledge Representation for Structural Design

这位总统青年调查员的研究涉及 创建新一代的初步设计环境。 这个新的环境将整合建筑和结构 因此，结构设计的概念和考虑因素 工程可以引入到一个初步设计， 建设 本研究的重点是知识与设计 表示. 知识将以广义的 计算机和人类工程师都接受的表示。 到 展示了设计知识库的力量，一个原型CAD 系统将开发。 该系统的主要目标是 促进人类设计决策，这将是 全面设计自动化系统的基础。 化完基础 设计技巧已融入系统，智能化 功能，如提供建议或解决方案的部分， 设计问题，将被添加。 实现后一个目标需要 将更高层次的知识整合到知识库中。

The research of this Presidential Young Investigator involves the creation of a new generation of preliminary design environments. This new environment will integrate architectural and structural engineering so that the concepts and considerations of a structural engineering can be introduced into the preliminary design of a building. The emphasis of this research is knowledge and design representation. Knowledge will be presented with a generalized representation accepted by both the computer and human engineer. To demonstrate the power of the design knowledge base, a prototype CAD system will be developed. A primary goal of the system is to facilitate human design decision making, which will be the foundation of full-scale design automation systems. After the basic design skills have been incorporated into the system, intelligent features, such as providing advice or solutions to parts of the design problem, will be added. Achieving this latter goal requires that higher level knowledge be integrated into the knowledge base.