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              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH SEMINAR 
                    Department of Computer Science
                   Worcester Polytechnic  Institute

SPEAKER:  Janet Burge
TITLE:    "Reasoning with Design Rationale"
DATE:     Thursday,  Oct. 14, 1999
TIME:     11 am
ROOM:     FL246, Beckett Conference Room.

ABSTRACT:

Design Rationale (DR) consists of the decisions made during the design
process and the reasons behind them.  Because it offers more than just a
"snapshot" of the final design decisions, DR is invaluable as an aid for
revising, maintaining, documenting, evaluating, and learning the design.
Much work has been performed on how DR can be captured and represented but
not as much on how it can be used.  In this paper, we investigate the use
of DR by building InfoRat, a system that inferences over a design's
rationale in order to detect inconsistencies and to assess the impact of
changes.
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Everyone is welcome to attend!