Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design is a three volume edited collection of key papers from the field of artificial intelligence and design, aimed at providing a description of the field, and focusing on how ideas and methods from artifical intelligence can help engineers in the design of physical artifacts and processes. The book surveys a wide variety of applications in the areas of civil, mechanical, chemical, VLSI, electrical, and computer engineering. The contributors are from leading academic computer-aided design centers as well as from industry.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the MIT-JSME Workshop on Co-operative Product Development, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA in 1989. The 28 selected papers were organized into the following six categories: frameworks, dealing with problem-solving architectures; organizational issues, investigating strategies for organizing engineering activities for effective utilization of computer-aided tools; negotiation techniques, dealing with conflict detection and resolution between various agents; transaction management issues, dealing with...