Application Scenarios

IMCOD is supposed to be applied to intelligent engineering, especially in electrical or mechanical engineering and related areas, under the primary objective of evolving existing technologies.

As already explained in section 1, IMCOD can be used in all situations, where someone has to make a decision using his own domain knowledge and taking into account the results and statements of other domain expert systems, each relevant for special aspects of the whole problem.

As we focus on applications from the field of engineering, we will now sketch more concrete application scenarios:

mechanical engineering

To construct e.g. a car a designer has to take into account facts from the fields of thermodynamics, aerodynamics, tribology, functions, solidity, costs, air pollution and so on to get an optimal solution. For each aspect he has to ask a special domain expert, or he has to make some assumptions, based on his limited knowledge about this domains, which might lead to iteration steps in the designing process. The use of IMCOD will help to amalgamate the different expert opinions and will reduce cost intensive iteration steps.

consumer goods

Consumer goods like e.g. washing machines or stoves have reached a high standard of technology. The design of such consumer goods is not only influenced by aspects of economy and functionality; but also aspects of fashion and competition must be regarded. Besides this special points of view electrical and mechanical design tasks have to be solved.

The perhaps most important application of IMCOD is the computer aided design (CAD) e.g. in electrical or mechanical engineering. CAD is a field of research which covers several application domains like electronics, e.g. VLSI, architecture, civil engineering and building activities or terotechnology, additional to the fields mentioned below.

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