Integrating AI techniques into CASE environment

The main topics and approaches touched on in this paper focus on the combination of software engineering with artificial intelligence into the CASE environment, and building a CASE environment model based on representation. There are two points we emphasize: (1) requirements analysis as a crucial phase, and (2) mapping most software-intermediate products into kernel representation forms based on a representational schema, which gives the developer the opportunity to generate these products automatically. At present, we have finished the preliminary work and have applied these techniques to a prototype system to support the development of large-scale mechanical CAD software.<>