Industrial Information and Design Issues

J. -E. DUBOIS and N. GERSHON The first volume of this series, "The Information Revolution: Impact on Science and Technology", emphasized the importance of data sharing and fast communication and the advantages l!)f current hypertext developments in creating new and flexible data access. Volume II, "Modeling Complex Data for Creating Information", dealt, in particular, with the specific constraints of science and technology data including imprecision and uncertainty. It also provided representation and handling tools and object oriented programming technology for developing data systems. The papers presented in this third volume are concerned with the very specific information problems of the technical and competitive industrial world. Here, production and selling rely on creative design, information processing, special up-to­ date data search, knowledge comprehension and fast action, all essential for decision­ making steps. The following topics are discussed in this volume: . Cognition and Recognition in Design . Knowledge Based Systems (KBS) Evaluation . Modeling Tools for Knowledge Discovery . Standards and CAD (Computer Aided Design) Aspects of Industrial Exchange and Specifications . Information Seeking Strategies of Selective Access to Intelligent Information . Special Information Resources: Complex Databases Most of these topics, inspired by the symposium on "Communication and Computer Aided Systems" held during the 14th International CODATA Conference, deal with systemic components used by various up-to-date industries in development strategies.

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One. Knowledge: The Driving Force in CAD Systems.- 1: Creative Design and Its Cognitive Components Information.- Models of Information Systems: Knowledge, Tasks and Tools.- On the Management of Incompatibilities in Knowledge Systems.- Knowledge Bases for Creative Design of Micromechanisms.- Creation of Extended Generic Knowledge Spaces from Random and Limited Experimental Data.- Integration of Materials Data Systems, Fusion of Knowledge and Data, and Dynamics in Materials Design.- 2: Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Based Systems (KBS).- Human Dimension in Artificial Intelligence, Taste, Preference, Choice - Beyond Classical Optimization.- The Integration of Scientific Data into an Artificial Intelligence System.- Multimedia Information System for Machining of Advanced Aerospace Composites.- Reasoning about Corrosion from Cases Instead of Rules.- Strategic Search for Potential Quaternary Representatives of the Newest Record Tc Intermetallic Superconductor (Tc = 23K) Belonging to the New Structure Type B2CLuNi2.- 3: Modeling Tools for Knowledge Discovery.- Pattern Recognition and Classification in Multivariate Problems: Morphology for the Determination of Useful Boundaries. industrial applications.- Maximum Likelihood Processing of Antenna Array Signals.- Revisiting the Electrical Effects of Substituents: Challenging the Basic Substituent Scales.- The Oasis Computer System and its New Tools for QSAR Studies.- Regularity and Similarity, Prediction Tools for Metallic Compounds.- Two. New Data Channels: Industrial Information Tools.- 4: Industrial Information Exchange: STEP, Standards and CAD Design Needs.- STEP: The ISO 10303 Standard for Product Data Exchange and Representation.- Materials Property Data in STEP.- Data Exchanges in the Building Industry.- Neutral Product Models for Ship Hull Geometry and Their Use in Data Exchange.- The CALS Initiative: A Global Model for Distributed Data Acquisition.- 5: Information Seeking Strategies: Selective Access to Current Information Online.- Intelligent Documentation and Information Appraisal.- Textual Information Processing Challenges and Research Issues.- Semantic Analysis of Textual Information in the Aeronautical Field.- Hypertext Generation of Industrial Specification for Contractors in the Automative Industry.- Database Access: Role of Graphics Interfaces for Selecting Materials.- Acquisition and Analysis of Japanese Online Information.- 6: Information Resources: Intelligent Complex Databases.- A Model for the Description of Large Databases.- A Cooperative Database System Based on Workspace Hierarchy.- Case-Based Reasoning Management of a Structural Database.- Using Formal Specification Languages to Prove Data Model Consistency.- Chemical Abstracts Index Names: Automatic Generation.- An International Database of Nuclear Concrete Structures Ageing.