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• Conceptual or preliminary engineering design.>
• Case-based Reasoning.
• Description of the CADET architecture.

The CADET project team

• Katia Sycara
• Dundee Navin-Chandra
• S. Narasimhan
• Therani Madhusudan

CADET Publications

• Sycara, K., Guttal, R., Koning, J., Narasimhan, S., Navinchandra, D. "CADET: a Case-based Synthesis Tool for Engineering Design", International Journal of Expert Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1992.
• Navinchandra, D., Sycara, K., and Narasimhan, S. "A Transformational Approach to Case Based Synthesis", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Manufacturing and Design, (AIEDAM)], Vol. 5, No. 1, May 1991.
• Sycara, K. and Navinchandra, D. "Index Transformation Techniques for Facilitating Creative Use of Multiple Cases". In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-91), Sydney, Australia, August, 1991.
• Navinhandra, D., Sriram, D., and Sycara, K., "Analogical and Case-Based Reasoning". In Knowledge-Based and Neural Network Approaches to Engineering Problem Solving, D. Sriram (ed), Academic Press, 1993.
• Sycara, K. and Navinchandra, D. "Retrieval Strategies in a Case-Based Design System", In Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Volume II, C. Tong and D. Sriram (Eds.), Academic Press Inc., July, 1992.
• Navinhandra, D., Narasimhan, S, and Sycara, K., "Qualitative Reasoning Methods in Design" A. Kusiak (ed.), Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, John Wiley and Sons, New York, January, 1992.
• Sycara, K. and Navinchandra D., "Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Qualitative Reasoning in Engineering Design". In Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, J. Gero (Ed.), Computational Mechanics Publications, U.K., July 1989.
• Michelena, N, and Sycara, K. "Physical Synthesis in Case-Based Design", In Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Minneapolis, MN. September 1994.
• Michelena, N. and Sycara, K. "Performance Representation in Case-Based Design", In Proceedings of the ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Minneapolis, MN., September 1994.
• Sycara, K. "Case Based Synthesis in Engineering Design", In Proceedings of the DARPA Manufacturing and Design Engineering Workshop, Palo Alto, Ca., May 1992.
• Sycara, K. and Navinchandra, D. "Influences: A Thematic Abstraction for Creative Use of Multiple Cases", In Proceedings of the Case-Based Reasoning Workshop, Washington, DC., May 1991.
• Sycara, K. and Navinchandra, D. "Index Transformation and Generation for Case Retrieval". In Proceedings of the 1989 Case-Based Reasoning Workshop, Pensacola Beach, Fla., May 1989.

Interacting with the CADET system

CADET consists of sub-systems that we call CARD (Case-based Retrieval for Design). This system is being refurbished and is non-operational at this time.

Extensions to CADET with an enhanced device model has been implemented in the WATT system. This system integrates model-based reasoning and case-based reasoning.