- Dennis Bahler and J. Bowen,
Design Rationale Management in Concurrent Engineering,
10th Natl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-92),
Workshop on Design Rationale Capture and Use, San Jose, 1992.
The ability to capture and use design rationales,
part of what we call Design Rationale Management (DRM),
is an important facet of Concurrent Engineering.
Galileo2 is a language for constructing interactive design advice systems
for Concurrent Engineering, based on a generalization of constraint
processing.
We briefly describe the features of Galileo2 which
make it especially suitable for constructing
Concurrent Engineering applications and supporting DRM.
We also sketch an example
interaction with a typical application program written in the
language; this example scenario shows
how an advisor written in Galileo2 uses DRM among other methods to support
consultation, coordination, and negotiation among multiple engineers who are
expert in different aspects of the product life cycle.
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