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Effective object-oriented software support of knowledge intensive CAD requires extension of the object-oriented paradigm because its hierarchies are fundamentally based upon ancestral relations. Propagations are proposed as an extension to facilitate modeling of interrelationships between features. Such object modeling provides an effective software tool for localized perspectives upon design knowledge stored in rule and case bases. These local views show promise as a means to avoid the combinatorial explosions common to knowledge based systems, as will be discussed with respect to a completed industrial example and to ongoing work on rapid prototyping data.
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Peters, T.J., Demurjian, S.A., McCartney, R., Needham, D.M. (1997). Object Modeling to Localize Knowledge for Feature Interrelationships. In: Mäntylä, M., Finger, S., Tomiyama, T. (eds) Knowledge Intensive CAD. KIC 1996. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35192-6_12
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