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With the increasing availability of advanced technology and the rapidly changing nature of design requirements, modern products are becoming more and more complicated in their functionality. A product’s success is heavily dependant upon a high quality design. With such high expectation from the market, the designer faces a great challenge in choosing enabling technologies and producing a product design with highest possible quality and minimum cost in the shortest time to market. There is, therefore, a necessity for powerful tools to assist the designer in addressing such demanding design requirements. Most software tools available today only support a designer in a very limited aspect of the whole design process and it is very difficult if not impossible to use them effectively as a homogenous tool. In addition, the designer is more likely to be hindered by incompatabilities between a set of heterogeneous software.
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Yan, XT., Sharpe, J.E.E. (1996). Reasoning and Truth Maintenance of Causal Structures in Interdisciplinary Product Modelling and Simulation. In: Sharpe, J.E.E. (eds) AI System Support for Conceptual Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1475-8_25
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