Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

This volume contains the 5 invited papers and 72 selected papers that were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. This is the first IEA/AIE conference to take place outside the USA: more than 120 papers were received from 23 countries, clearly indicating the international character of the conference series. Each paper was reviewed by at least three referees. The papers are grouped into parts on: CAM, reasoning and modelling, pattern recognition, software engineering and AI/ES, CAD, vision, verification and validation, neural networks, machine learning, fuzzy logic and control, robotics, design and architecture, configuration, finance, knowledge-based systems, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and language processing, reasoning and decision support, intelligent interfaces/DB and tutoring, fault diagnosis, planning and scheduling, and data/sensor fusion.

Inhalt
Gaining strategic advantage with real-time distributed artificial intelligence.- Intelligent databases and interoperability.- The TOVE project towards a common-sense model of the enterprise.- Automatization in the design of image understanding systems.- Constraint programming an alternative to expert systems.- Case-based reasoning in expert system assisting production line design.- Scaling-up model-based troubleshooting by exploiting design functionalities.- Application of knowledge-based systems to optimised building maintenance management.- Application of model-based reasoning to the maintenance of telecommunication networks.- Advanced information modelling for integrated network management applications.- An integration of Case-Based and Model-Based Reasoning and its application to physical system faults.- Analysing particle jets with artificial neural networks.- Convergence behaviour of connectionist models in large scale diagnostic problems.- Pattern recognition approach to an acoustical quality test of burnt ceramic products.- Enhancing software engineering capabilities of PROLOG by object-oriented concepts.- Specifying Decision-Making Processes.- Operationalizing software reuse as a problem in inductive learning.- Towards a real Cad-system using AI technology.- WIZ A prototype for knowledge-based drawing interpretation.- Intelligent system for feature- based modelling of machine parts.- Intelligent process control by means of expert systems and machine vision.- Tracking and grasping of moving objects a behaviour-based approach .- Panter Knowledge based image analysis system for workpiece recognition.- KITSS: Using knowledge-based software engineering for functional testing.- Complex Knowledge Base Verification Using Matrices.- Structural testingstrategies applied to knowledge-based systems.- Retraining and redundancy elimination for a Condensed Nearest Neighbour network.- A multiple paradigm diagnostic system for wide area communication networks.- Recursive neural net modeling of a multi-zone tenter frame dryer.- Representation of the design to manufacture methodology of the armour protection element of the fibre optic submarine cable within an expert system.- PIM: Planning in manufacturing CAPP using skeletal plans.- Visual modelling: A knowledge acquisition method for intelligent process control systems.- Machine learning in communication nets.- Supporting model-based diagnosis with explanation-based learning and analogical inferences.- A knowledge-based system for the diagnosis of waste-water treatment plants.- Connectionism for fuzzy learning in rule-based expert systems.- Extending constraint satisfaction problem solving in structural design.- A modulation package tuning machine applying fuzzy logic.- Towards Intelligent Robotic Assemblies.- Action planning for multiple robots in space.- A calibration of a mobile camera used for a camera-guided grasping by an eye-in-hand robot.- Strict: Selecting the RIght architeCTure.- Solving Temporal Constraints Satisfaction Problems with an Object-Oriented model.- An integration mechanism for design models in the Design Environment DATE.- Configuration of a passenger aircraft cabin based on conceptual hierarchy, constraints and flexible control.- Configuration of industrial mixing-machines Development of a knowledge-based system.- A theoretical framework for configuration.- Stock market prediction with backpropagation networks.- Forecasting time series with connectionist nets: Applications in statistics, signal processing and economics.- ILISCE: Asystem for learning control heuristics in a scheduling environment.- KUSET Knowledge based User Support for Electron Beam Testing.- Knowledge-based design of ergonomic lighting for underground scenarios.- A monitoring approach supporting performance analysis of expert systems for the EMC design of printed circuit boards.- Representing geometric objects using constraint description graphs.- A terminological language for representing complex knowledge.- Knowledge representation and decision making: A hybrid approach.- Knowledge acquisition from text in a complex domain.- Parallel parsing of ambiguous languages on hypercube architectures.- Towards knowledge acquisition by experts.- The rough sets approach to knowledge analysis for classification support in technical diagnostics of mechanical objects.- Bi-directional probabilistic assessment.- Reasoning under uncertainty with temporal aspects.- An expert system approach for Power System diagnosis.- DELPHI-EXPERT an expert system for error diagnosis in High Energy Physics detectors.- Combining real-time with knowledge processing techniques.- Tailoring advanced instructional software for AI.- Interpreting unexpected user activity in an intelligent user interface.- Yet another knowledge-based front-end-to-database project.- Fault diagnosis based on simulation models.- Real-time fault diagnosis Using occupancy grids and neural network techniques.- Expert systems for fault diagnosis on CNC machines.- Design efficient local search algorithms.- The design of building parts by using knowledge based systems.- Information fusion in a knowledge-based.- Numerical and syntactic tools for fusion and diagnosis provided with the TOPMUSS-system.- Learning performance estimations in a knowledge based CAD-environment.- Objectoriented framework for generating machine understanding of a digital system design.