ECAI 2004 Conference Paper

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Appropriateness of the Case-Based Approach in an application domain with multiple conflicts among Goals

Ricardo L. Freitas , G. Nakamiti, Carlos M. Tobar, D. Piva Jr

One of the challenges for the complete automation of a flexible manufacturing cell is the correct sequencing of actions to be performed by each constituent machine. In general, this is due to the large number of problems which may appear during the production of an object. In practice, from a graphic description of an object and a given set of tools, a sequence of actions for a specific CNC tool-machine can be generated by an expert. However, this specification is not only manually created, but also does not observe the problems satisfactorily, bringing the need for a detailed review by an expert. In the light of this a prototype system, which allows satisfactory automation of the production process described above, has been designed and will be presented in this work. The system reuses previously elaborated cases as a model to get new solutions. Systems like this are known as case-based systems and constitutes a research topic within the Artificial Intelligence field which has received great attention from researchers world-wide, mainly for being potentially applicable in many areas.

Keywords: Intelligent Automation, Case-based Reasoning, Planning

Citation: Ricardo L. Freitas , G. Nakamiti, Carlos M. Tobar, D. Piva Jr: Appropriateness of the Case-Based Approach in an application domain with multiple conflicts among Goals. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.1013-1014.