Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing Workshop: State of the Art and State of the Practice
Leslie D. Interrante General Chair; George F. Luger, Editor
August 31 – September 2, 1998, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is available in book format.
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Contents
Preface / ix
Sensible Agent Problem-Solving Simulation for Manufacturing Environments / 1
K. S. Barber, E. White, A. Goel, D. Han, J. Kim, H. Li, T.H. Liu, C.E. Martin and R. McKay, University of Texas at Austin
Features of the Systems Engineering Process Activities (SEPA) Methodology / 9
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Stephen R. Jernigan and Brian J. McGiverin University of Texas at Austin
WinMod: An Expert Advisor for Investment Casting / 16
Hugh P. Bivens, George A. Williamson Jr. and George F. Luger, University of New Mexico; Rob Erdmann, University of Arizona; Michael C. Maguire, Michael D. Baldwin and Dennis J. Anderson, Sandia National Laboratories
Toward a Computational Theory of Discrete Manufacturing (Extended Abstract) / 23
J. C. Boudreaux, U.S. Department of Commerce
Compositional Design of a Generic Design Agent / 30
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur and Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Designing Agents for Manufacturing Control / 40
Sven Bruckner, Daimler-Benz AG; Jo Wyns and Patrick Peeters , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Martin Kollingbaum, University of Cambridge
Automatic Synthesis of Control Sequences: A Nonlinear Planning Approach / 47
Luis Castillo, Juan Fdez-Olivares and Antonio Gonzales, Universidad de Granada
Intelligent Case Retrieval and Modification for Machining Process Planning of Axisymmetric Parts / 55
Hsin-chi Chang, Wen F. Lu and Xiaoqing Frank Liu, University of Missouri-Rolla
MAGNET: A Multi-Agent Contracting System for Plan Execution / 63
John Collins, Maksim Tsvetovatyy, Bamshad Mobasher and Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
An Autonomous Manufacturing Collective for Job Shop Scheduling / 69
Steven Y. Goldsmith and Leslie D. Interrante, Sandia National Laboratories
Braze Feedback Loop: Concurrent, Data-Driven Support for Product Development / 75
Leslie D. Interrante, Sandia National Laboratories
Drawing Analogies by Systematic Spatial Inferencing for Manufactured Components / 83
Erik J. Johnson and Michael M. Marefat, University of Arizona
Concurrent Materials and Process Selection in Conceptual Design / 93
Stephen D. Kleban, Sandia National Laboratories
An Interactive Approach for Satisfying Process Plan Generation / 97
Xiaomin Li, Subbarao Kambhampati and Jami Shah, Arizona State University
Function-Based Modeling of Fabrication Plans for Structural Assemblies / 104
I. Martinez, O. Lukibanov and Jon Stricklen, Michigan State University
Intelligent Supply Chain Agents Using ADE / 112
Anshu Mehra, Gensym Corporation and Mark Nissen, Naval Postgraduate School
Process Planning in Microwave Module Production / 120
Jeff Meyer, Michael Ball, John Baras, Abdur Chowdhury, Edward Lin, Dana Nau, Ravi Rajamani and Vinai Trichur, University of Maryland
Preface to "Flexibility in Manufacturing: A Proposal for Study" / 127
Dana Nau and Mark Sloan, University of Maryland
Flexibility in Manufacturing: A Proposal for Study / 129
Jonathan Neumann, Scott Rosenkranz, Vance Wallace, Michele Walther, Aubrey Williams and Blaine Woehr, University of Maryland
The NIST Design/Process Planning Integration Project / 135
Walter Nederbragt, Robert Allen, Shaw Feng, Serge Kaing, Ram Sriram and Yuyun Zhang, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Knowledge Systematization for Operations Planning / 140
Karsten Schierholt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Neural Networks in CMOS Manufacturing: Some Examples / 147
Edward A. Rietman, Bell Laboratories
Performance Evaluation of Multiple Robots in a Search and Retrieval Task / 153
Paul Rybski, Amy Larson, Michael Lindahl and Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
A Multi-Site Scheduling System / 161
Jurgen Sauer, University of Oldenburg
Discovering Methodologies for Integrated Product Design / 169
Cirrus Shakeri, David C. Brown and Mohammad N. Noori, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Learning in Agent-Based Manufacturing Systems / 177
Weiming Shen, Francisco Maturana and Douglas H. Norrie, University of Calgary
A Multi-Agent System for Programming Robotic Agents by Human Demonstration / 184
Richard M. Voyles, University of Minnesota and Pradeep K. Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University
Plan Recovery in Factory Automation Domain / 191
Xuemei Wang, Rockwell Science Center and Shivakumar Sastry, Rockwell Automation
Index / 197