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"Tong & Sriram book intro."

C. Tong & D. Sriram, Introduction. In: Artificial Intelligence in
Engineering Design, Vol. 1, (Eds) C. Tong & D. Sriram, Academic Press,
1992, pp. 1-53.  


The introduction to the three volume book set is probably the most
comprehensive introduction to AI in Design ever written.  It is
intended as a setting for all the papers in the books, several of
which we read in this course. 

It isn't going to be an easy read, but try to go through it section by
section, reading each twice.  Perhaps it is better as a conclusion to
the course, but by that time you'll probably find much of it obvious
as we'll have covered it.  

I've put it at the start of the course to get some of the main
concepts looking at least a little familiar, so that when we deal with
them in detail you'll already have a "mental place" to store the new
information.