{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"An Integration Tool for Life-Cycle Engineering","authors":[{"name":"Kathryn M. Chalfan","slug":"kathryn-m-chalfan","given":"Kathryn M.","family":"Chalfan","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Life-cycle engineering is the integr a ti on of the design process, which addresses primarily the system's performance , with analysis of the design 's other attributes, including reliability, maintainability, lifecycle cost, and manufacturability . The advent of symbolic approaches to design integration reveals the requirement and opportunity of using higher -level analysis to select the optimum design . This opportunity is present only when human interaction is reduced sufficiently to permit several complete design and analysis cycles to take place . We have implemented a generic integration tool that has been demonstrated to significantly shorten the design cycle, and are studying its application to life-cycle engineering. This logic-based tool regards the requested attributes as a set of uninstantiated variables and invokes external computational programs, recursively if necessary, to achieve a proof consisting of the computed variable bindings. Key Words: Software integration, engineering design, expert system.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/117","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0117.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/117.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/bibtex/117","volume":{"slug":"1987","title":"Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1987","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/","year":1987,"location":"Milan, Italy","dates":"","editors":"John McDermott","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Knowledge Representation","track":"Knowledge Representation","number":117,"pages":{"first":592,"last":594},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}