Capture and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design

Ajit, S. (2009) Capture and Maintenance of Constraints in Engineering Design.

Item Type:	Other
Abstract:	The thesis investigates two domains, initially the kite domain and then part of a more demanding Rolls-Royce domain (jet engine design). Four main types of refinement rules that use the associated application conditions and domain ontology to support the maintenance of constraints are proposed. The refinement rules have been implemented in ConEditor and the extended system is known as ConEditor+. With the help of ConEditor+, the thesis demonstrates that an explicit representation of application conditions together with the corresponding constraints and the domain ontology can be used to detect inconsistencies, redundancy, subsumption and fusion, reduce the number of spurious inconsistencies and prevent the identification of inappropriate refinements of redundancy, subsumption and fusion between pairs of constraints.
Creators:	Ajit, Suraj
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Computing
Date:	27 May 2009
Date Type:	Publication
Number of Pages:	235
Language:	English
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11919

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