Application of Artificial Intelligence in Offshore Structures

The analysis and design of offshore structures is a complex complicated process. It is an iterative process involving several underlying assumptions, approximations and uncertainties which remain unresolved. The structures have to withstand an environment

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DSRIRAM Department of Civil Engineering M.I.T. Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 USA RADEY Computational Mechanics Inc Suite 6200 400 West Cummings Park Woburn MA 01801 USA

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International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems ( 1986: University of Southampton) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems, Southampton University U.K., Apri11986. 1. Engineering design-Data processing 2. Artificial intelligence 3. Pattern recognition systems I. Title II. Sriram, D. III. Adey, R. 620' .00425'0285 TA174

ISBN 978-3-662-21628-6 ISBN 978-3-662-21626-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-21626-2

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CONTENTS VOLUME I PREFACE

OBLOGIS, A Flexible Flavor Implementation of PROLOG Logic, and Its Application to the Design of a Broaching Expert System PaulY. G/oess UA CNRS & GRAPHAEL/France Jacques Marcovich Renault- D.A.S. T./France Expert Systems in Process Control: Applications Experience Robert L. Moore LISP Machine Inc., Massachusetts, USA

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KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION/ ACQUISITION

Knowledge Base for Structural Design Mukti L. Das University of Lowell, USA Sitaram V. Josyula DRA VO Corporation, Pittsburgh, USA

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The Use of Knowledge Engineering Teams as a Method for the Development of Expert Systems Rense Lange University of lllinois, USA Leslie Hearn and Frank W. Kearney US Army Corps of Engineers

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Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering J.F. Puget, N. Benamou, C. Vrain, Y. Kodratoff Universite de Paris-Sud, France

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Knowledge Bases and Machine Learning Joe K. Clema, Richard Werling, A/had Chande llTRI, Technion International, SASC Technologies

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Counter Examples and Explanations Christel Vrain Universite de Paris, France

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Lessons Learned Developing a Planning System J. W. Benoit, J.R. Davidson, E.G. Powell The MITRE Corporation, McLean, USA

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ROBOTICS

A Least-Squares Algorithm for lnterframe Displacement Estimation. Application to Stereo Vision Luis Pastor and Jose Maria Sebastian Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

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An Intelligent Vision System for Robot Zhong-rong Li and Da-pen