@inproceedings{817f77a5c3e24c11976b08ab88928194,
title = "UPGRADING DESIGN SYSTEMS",
abstract = "Design systems can have considerable embedded value. Improvements in such systems are better achieved through upgrades than through complete replacements. To determine how best to make these upgrades requires a systems view of design. Such a view is provided by what we call TAO (test-aspect-operator) graphs. Nodes in these graphs represent aspects of the artifacts being designed while arcs represent operators (transforms between aspects) and tests (comparisons of aspects). Upgrades can be thought of as the additions of nodes or arcs to an existing TAO graph. To illustrate these ideas we will briefly describe the upgrades that we are making to a system for designing certain automobile parts.",
author = "Sarosh Talukdar and Jim Rehg and Rob Woodbury and Alberto Elfes",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 1988, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.; 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1988 ; Conference date: 21-08-1988 Through 26-08-1988",
year = "1988",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1988",
publisher = "American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Press",
pages = "336--341",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 1988",
address = "United States",
}