An engineering design process supported by knowledge retrieval from a spatial database

Author

Manwaring, Mark L. ; Jones, Kent L. ; Glagowski, Terry G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

21-25 Oct 1996

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

398

Abstract

An algorithm is presented which has the purpose of allowing the search of a nonhomogeneous database which contains engineering design information and other data relevant to the engineering design process. The purpose of the work is to develop a system which improves the design process by providing a quick access mechanism to heterogeneous, complex knowledge. The algorithm is based on a new type of fuzzy query (i.e. iterative, ranked retrieval) from an exclusive, partitional, spatial database. A prototype system which implements a small database and this retrieval from a PLOP hashing database is described and an example is presented which demonstrates its application

Keywords

computer aided engineering; design engineering; fuzzy set theory; information retrieval; visual databases; PLOP hashing database; engineering design information; engineering design process; fuzzy query; heterogeneous complex knowledge; knowledge retrieval; nonhomogeneous database search; prototype system; quick access mechanism; ranked retrieval; spatial database; Algorithm design and analysis; Data engineering; Design engineering; Information retrieval; Iterative algorithms; Knowledge engineering; Partitioning algorithms; Process design; Prototypes; Spatial databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Second IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7614-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECCS.1996.558476

Filename

558476