A Partial Mechanical Design Compiler
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AI_WP_309.pdf
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Author(s)
Ward, Allen C.
Date Issued
February 1987
Publisher
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Series/Report no.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Working Papers, WP-309
Abstract
I have implemented a simple "mechanical design compiler", that is a program which can convert high-level descriptions of a mechanical design into detail descriptions. (Human interaction is sometimes required.) The program operates in the domain of power transmission equipment composed of discrete, purchasable components. I describe a semantic theory which assigns meanings to the high-level descriptions, and a set of operations on statements in a "specification language" which perform some of the reasoning required by the "compilation" process.
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