In this paper we discuss the issues involved an forming proper knowledge representation for process planning. Ajter 01 brief review the knowledge representation schemes used in the existing reported CAPP systems we describe the process planning function and its knowledge requirements. Based on these requirements, we present a knowledge representation scheme Chat allows both upstream and downstr...

KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) process has become a new and important research area. Within the framework of KDD process and the GLS (Global Learning Scheme) system recently proposed by us, this paper concentrates on the issue of KDD process planning. In our method, the KDD process is modeled as an organized society of intelligent agents (called KDD agents), and planning is a meta-agent...

Remanufacturing is an active area of research due to its cost saving capabilities and emission-reduction benefits. After being disassembled, cleaned and inspected, the core components go through a series of reconditioning operations before being reassembled into the final remanufactured product, and tested to ensure quality. However, used core components have varying conditions, different defec...