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This paper proposes knowledge intensive engineering that is a new way of engineering activities in various product life cycle stages flexibly conducted with more knowledge to create more added value. Knowledge representation and modeling issues are discussed and a cooperative multiple intelligent agent architecture based on multiple ontology is proposed for building a Knowledge Intensive Engineering Framework (KIEF). KIEF can be used as a knowledge intensive CAD for knowledge intensive design of knowledge intensive machines. This demonstrates the power and usefulness of knowledge intensive engineering. It is also discussed that to achieve knowledge intensive engineering, systematization of knowledge is an essential process to allow intelligent agents to share accumulated knowledge.
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Tomiyama, T., Umeda, Y., Ishii, M., Yoshioka, M., Kiriyama, T. (1996). Knowledge systematization for a knowledge intensive engineering framework. In: Tomiyama, T., Mäntylä, M., Finger, S. (eds) Knowledge Intensive CAD. KIC 1995. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34930-5_4
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