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The use of the minimum description length (MDL) principle as a preference bias for KEDS provides a foundation for learning the "best" models (i.e., those that minimize predictive error on unseen data). KEDS has been applied to model three real-world domains: a diesel engine combustion chamber, a CMOS circuit for an operational amplifier, and a turning process on a lathe.","The second issue is that of supporting early stage design. Current computer-aided methods for product and process design require the iterative use of computer-based analysis models in a generate-and-test fashion. While this process is essential to optimize performance during the final stages of design, it has a number of disadvantages during early design. By restricting the models families used by KEDS to forms that can provide synthesis support (hyperplanes), the user can learn a multidirectional model. The user can use this model to propagate constraints in the analysis as well as the synthesis direction. This avoids the time-consuming traditional procedure of iteratively using analysis models to support synthesis. Further this multidirectional model provides the user with great flexibility during early stage design, and the valuable ability to perform "What-if?" analysis. The inverse engineering methodology has been successfully applied to learn models to support early product design of combustion chambers for diesel engines, and to support process design for a turning machine.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T22:23:13Z (GMT). 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The use of the minimum description length (MDL) principle as a preference bias for KEDS provides a foundation for learning the "best" models (i.e., those that minimize predictive error on unseen data). KEDS has been applied to model three real-world domains: a diesel engine combustion chamber, a CMOS circuit for an operational amplifier, and a turning process on a lathe.","The second issue is that of supporting early stage design. Current computer-aided methods for product and process design require the iterative use of computer-based analysis models in a generate-and-test fashion. While this process is essential to optimize performance during the final stages of design, it has a number of disadvantages during early design. By restricting the models families used by KEDS to forms that can provide synthesis support (hyperplanes), the user can learn a multidirectional model. The user can use this model to propagate constraints in the analysis as well as the synthesis direction. This avoids the time-consuming traditional procedure of iteratively using analysis models to support synthesis. Further this multidirectional model provides the user with great flexibility during early stage design, and the valuable ability to perform "What-if?" analysis. The inverse engineering methodology has been successfully applied to learn models to support early product design of combustion chambers for diesel engines, and to support process design for a turning machine.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T22:23:13Z (GMT). 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