Industrial Information and Design Issues

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.- NeutralProduct 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