CS540 - AI Approaches to Design

Course Content

Version: Thu, 20 May 2004

1. Introduction
Tong & Sriram book intro.	Read	Background	Dave
Brown, Encyc. article. (revised)	Read	Discuss	Dave
Brown, Routineness Revisited.		Presentation	Dave
Stahovich, AI in Design	Read

2. Redesign & Iterative Redesign
Rutgers, REDESIGN	Presentation 1	Esther
Rutgers, DPMED	Read	Discuss
Dixon, Dominic	Read	Presentation 2	John

3. Hierarchically Guided Refinement
Maher, Hi-Rise		Summary	Dave
Rutgers, VEXED		Presentation 3	Leroy
Brown, DSPL/AIR-CYL	Read	Presentation	Dave
Mittal & Araya, PRIDE	Read	Discuss

4. Configuration
McDermott, XCON		Presentation	Dave
Mittal & Frayman, COSSACK	Read	Discuss
Birmingham, MICON/M1	Read	Presentation 4	Manasee
Wielinga, Configuration survey	Read	Discuss

5. Constraint Satisfaction/Posting
Mittal, Dynamic CSP	Read	Discuss
Bowen, constraint satisfaction	Read	Discuss
Stefik, MOLGEN	Read	Presentation 5	Yilei

6. Failure Handling/Conflict Resolution
Brown, FH	Read	Presentation	Dave
Marcus, VT	Read	Discuss
M. Klein, conflict resolution	Read	Presentation 6	Larisa

7. Negotiation
Sycara, negotiation	Read	Presentation 7	Mike
Lander, negotiation	Read	Discuss
Lander, Agents survey	Read	Discuss

8. Prototypes/CBR
Gero, prototypes	Read	Discuss
Maher, CBR in Design survey	Read	Discuss
Design by Adaptation/Modification
Addanki, modification	Read	Discuss
Campbell, Cagan & Kotovsky, A-Design	Read	Presentation 8	Esther

9. CBR/Analogy
Navinchandra & Sycara, CBR	Read	Presentation 9	Yilei
Mostow, BOGART	Read	Discuss
Huhns, ARGO	Read	Discuss
Goel, Analogy & Creativity survey	Read	Discuss

10. Invention/Creativity
E.Kant, algorithm design.	Read	Presentation 10	Leroy
Lenat, AM	Read	Discuss
Dyer & Flowers, EDISON	Read	Discuss

11. Learning/Knowledge Compilation
Rutgers, LEAP	Read	Discuss
Brown et al., Kn. Comp.		Presentation	Dave
Keller, redesign plans	Read	Presentation 11	John
Duffy, ML in Design survey	Read	Discuss

12. Compilation/Decomposition
Araya & Mittal, strain gauge	Read	Presentation 12	Manasee
Liu & Brown, problem decomp.		Presentation	Dave
Grammars
K.Brown, Grammars in Design survey	Read	Discuss
Genetic Algorithms
Bentley & Wakefield, Config with GAs	Read	Discuss	(or replacement paper)

13. Functional Reasoning
Ulrich, fn. sharing.	Read	Discuss
Freeman & Newell, fnl. reasoning	Read	Discuss
Goel, Fnl. CBR		Presentation 13	Larisa
Umeda, Functional reasoning survey	Read	Discuss

14. Model Selection & Model-based/First principles Design
Nayak, models	Read	Discuss
Williams, first principles.	Read	Presentation 14	Mike
Joskowicz, QR/Config Spaces	Read	Discuss
Taxonomies/Theories of design
Chandrasekaran, AI Mag.	Read	Discuss

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