Framing Supradisciplinary Research for Intellectualized Cyber-Physical Systems: An Unfinished Story

Conceptualization and design of intellectualized, socialized, and personalized cyber-physical systems (CPSs) need integration of existing knowledge across the involved disciplines, as well as exploration and synthesis of novel knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries. The latter needs a combined use of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary,...

The FATE System Iterated: Fair, Transparent and Explainable Decision Making in a Juridical Case

The goal of the FATE system is decision support with use of state-of-the-art human-AI co-learning, explainable AI and fair, secure and privacy-preserving usage of data. This AI-based support system is a general system, in which the modules can be tuned to specific use cases. The FATE system is designed to address different user roles, such as...

Design of a Graph Neural Network: to predict the optimal resolution of the Sonar Performance Model

Graph Neural Networks are a unique type of Deep Learning models that have a capability to exploit an explicitly stated structure of data representation. By design they carry a strong relational inductive bias, which is a set of assumptions that makes the algorithm prioritize some solutions over another, independent of observed data. This makes...

NL to PDDL: One-Shot Learning of Planning Domains from Natural Language Process Manuals

Automated Planning (AP) is a key component of Artificial General Intelligence and has been successfully employed in applications ranging from scheduling observations of Hubble Space Telescope to generating dialogue agents. A significant bottleneck for its widespread adoption is acquiring accurate domain models which formally encode the planning...

An Application of the IPROD Software Framework to Support the Product Development Process in the Automotive and Aerospace Domain

The Product Development Process (PDP) of manufacturing companies requires the efficient management of huge amounts of data from different sources and their integration in the sub-processes that compose the product development chain. This is a very challenging endeavor for which an integrated approach does not yet exist. The EC FP7 Project iProd...

A New Methodology for the Development of Simulation Workflows: Moving Beyond MOKA

One of the main challenges in Multi-disciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) is the interoperability of heterogeneous simulation tools. Some researches have reported that, due to these interoperability issues, only around 20% of the product development time is spent on analyses and creative design tasks. Clearly, there is a lot to gain, when it...

Integrating Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Engineering: Formal and Platform Independent Representation of Engineering Rules

Because the amount of knowledge in the engineering domain nowadays is huge, while being opaque, heterogeneous, distributed and informal at the same time, it is incredibly time-consuming for an engineer to find the knowledge (s)he is looking for and to reuse that knowledge. Furthermore, the amount of knowledge is growing exponentially, while the...

Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization Framework for Aircraft Box Structures

Competitive aircraft box structures are a perfect compromise between weight and price. The conceptual design process of these structures is a typical Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization effort, normally conducted by human engineers. The iterative nature of MDO turns development into a long and costly process. Knowledge-Based Engineering...

Human Handheld-Device Interaction: An Adaptive User Interface

The move to smaller, lighter and more powerful (mobile) handheld devices, whe-ther PDAs or smart-phones, looks like a trend that is building up speed. With numerous embedded technologies and wireless connectivity, the drift opens up unlimited opportunities in daily activities that are both more efficient and more exciting. Despite all these...

Application of a knowledge engineering process to support engineering design application development

A pattern directed approach towards an object adaptive decision support environment for water resources management