Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

This volume contains the 5 invited papers and 72 selectedpapers that were presented at the Fifth InternationalConference on Industrial and Engineering Applications ofArtificial Intelligence. This is the first IEA/AIEconference to take place outside the USA: more than 120papers were received from 23 countries, clearly indicatingthe international character of the conference series. Eachpaper was reviewed by at least three referees. The papersare 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, designand architecture, configuration, finance, knowledge-basedsystems, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition andlanguage processing, reasoning and decision support,intelligent interfaces/DB and tutoring, fault diagnosis,planning and scheduling, and data/sensor fusion.

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 testing strategies 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: A system 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.- Object oriented framework for generating machine understanding of a digital system design.