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Application of Logic-Based Methods to Machine Component Design

Authors Bram Aerts, Joost Vennekens

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Bram Aerts
  • EAVISE , Technology Campus De Nayer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Joost Vennekens
  • EAVISE , Technology Campus De Nayer, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Bram Aerts and Joost Vennekens. Application of Logic-Based Methods to Machine Component Design. In Technical Communications of the 34th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 64, pp. 13:1-13:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2018.13

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This paper describes an application worked out in collaboration with a company that produces made-to-order machine components. The goal of the project is to develop a system that can support the company's engineers by automating parts of their component design process. We propose a knowledge extraction methodology based on the recent DMN (Decision Model and Notation) standard and compare a rule-based and a constraint-based method for representing the resulting knowledge. We study the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches in the context of the company's real-life application.

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  • Applied computing → Engineering
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  • Application
  • Expert Systems
  • Constraint Solving
  • Rule-based Systems
  • Decision Modelling
  • DMN
  • Product Configuration

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