Artificial intelligence and expert systems for engineers

This book provides a comprehensive presentation of artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and tools valuable for solving a wide spectrum of engineering problems. What's more, it offers these AI tools on an accompanying disk with easy-to-use software. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers details the AI-based methodologies known as: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES); Design Synthesis; Design Critiquing; and Case-Based Reasoning. KBES are the most popular AI-based tools and have been successfully applied to planning, diagnosis, classification, monitoring, and design problems. Case studies are provided with problems in engineering design for better understanding of the problem-solving models using the four methodologies in an integrated software environment.Throughout the book, examples are given so that students and engineers can acquire skills in the use of AI-based methodologies for application to practical problems ranging from diagnosis to planning, design, and construction and manufacturing in various disciplines of engineering.Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers is a must-have reference for students, teachers, research scholars, and professionals working in the area of civil engineering design in particular and engineering design in general. This book attempts a comprehensive presentation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methodologies and software tools which focuses on addressing a wide spectrum of problems in engineering. Engineering design problems have to be addressed in an integrated manner with knowledge from different domains and sources. This process should encompass design synthesis and critiquing, case-based reasoning, and concurrent engineering. This book can serve as a textbook for students and teachers, where the software frameworks and tools provide resource material to researchers and professionals interested in developing knowledge-based systems in various engineering disciplines