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CS540 - AI Approaches to Design

Course Content

DRAFT Version: Thu Mar 5 18:59:48 EST 2009



1. Introduction

Course organization                     .       .               Dave
Design                                  .       .               Dave
Brown, Encyc. article. (revised)	Read	Discuss         Dave
Tong & Sriram book intro.  		Read	Discuss 	Dave
Stahovich, AI in Design.                Read    Discuss		Dave        


2. Redesign & Iterative Redesign

Brown, Routineness Revisited.		.	Presentation 	Dave
Rutgers, REDESIGN			Read	Discuss
Dixon, Dominic				Read	Presentation 1	Jonathan
Rutgers, DPMED				Read	Discuss         


3. Hierarchically Guided Refinement

Maher, Hi-Rise				.	Summary		Dave
Rutgers, VEXED  			Read	Presentation 2	Mike
Brown, DSPL/AIR-CYL 			Read	Presentation 3	Hua
Mittal & Araya, PRIDE   		Read	Discuss         


4. Configuration

McDermott, R1/XCON			.	Presentation 	Dave
Mittal & Frayman, COSSACK		Read	Discuss
Birmingham, MICON/M1			Read	Presentation 4  Josh
Wielinga, Configuration survey		Read	Discuss



5. Constraint Satisfaction/Posting

Mittal, Dynamic CSP			Read	Discuss
Bowen, constraint satisfaction		Read    Discuss
Stefik, MOLGEN				Read	Presentation 5	Bill



6. Failure Handling/Conflict Resolution

Brown, FH				Read	Presentation 	Dave
Marcus, VT  				Read	Discuss
M. Klein, conflict resolution		Read	Presentation 6  Bob



7. Agents & Negotiation

Sycara, negotiation			Read	Presentation 7	Tom
SiFAs                                   Read    Discuss
Lander, Agents survey 			Read    Discuss 


8. Design by Modification/Adaptation

Campbell, Cagan & Kotovsky, A-Design	Read   [Presentation 8	Jonathan]
Addanki, modification			Read	Discuss
Gero, prototypes			Read	Discuss
Maher, CBR in Design survey		Read	Discuss



9. CBR/Analogy

Navinchandra & Sycara, CBR  		Read	Presentation 9	Bob
Mostow, BOGART  			Read	Discuss
Huhns, ARGO  				Read	Discuss
Goel, Kritik 1&2 (1997)                 Read    Discuss



10. Invention/Creativity

Goel, Analogy & Creativity survey	Read	Discuss
E.Kant, algorithm design.		Read	Presentation 10	Josh
Lenat, AM				Read	Discuss
Bhatta, Goel & Prabhakar, IDEAL         Read	Discuss



11. Learning/Knowledge Compilation

Rutgers, LEAP				Read	Discuss
Brown et al., Kn. Comp.			Read	Presentation 	Dave
Keller, redesign plans			Read	Presentation 11	Bill
Duffy, ML in Design survey		Read	Discuss



12. Compilation/Decomposition 

Araya & Mittal, strain gauge		Read	Presentation 12	Mike
Liu & Brown, problem decomp.		Read	Presentation 13	(Dave)

    Grammars 

K.Brown, Grammars in Design survey	Read	Discuss

    Genetic Algorithms

Koza et al., genetic programming        Read	Discuss



13. Functional Reasoning

Umeda, Functional reasoning survey	Read	Discuss
Ulrich, fn. sharing.  			Read    Discuss	
Chandrasekaran & Josephson 2000         Read    Discuss
Gero & Kannengiesser 2004               Read    Presentation 14 Tom



14. Assorted

Nayak, models				Read	Discuss 
Joskowicz, QR/Config Spaces  		Read	Discuss
Burge, Design Rationale                 Read    Presentation    Dave
Chandrasekaran, AI Mag.			Read	Discuss




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