Non-monotonic reasoning for structural design
Bimal Kumar, Barry H. V. Topping · Civil Engineering Systems · 1990
A knowledge-based approach to enable structural engineering design software to recover from non-monotonic states is described. A brief description of nonmonotonic reasoning is given followed by some examples from practical structural design problems which exhibit non-monotonicity. A prototype knowledge-based system, DESCON, is then described which can automatically control non-monotonic states in structural design using a dependency network model of design. The basis of the network model of design is described together with the details of the implementation of DESCON.