AI Models for System Engineering

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence sponsored a number of workshops in conjunction with the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence held 11-15 July 1993 in Washington, D.C. This article contains reports of four of the workshops that were conducted: AI Models for System Engineering, Case-Based Reasoning, Reasoning about Function, and Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems. This article contains reports of four of the workshops that were conducted: AI Models for System Engineering, Case-Based Reasoning, Reasoning about Function, and Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems. The AI Models for System Engineering Workshop included 11 presentations divided into 2 broad categories: (1) the need for using AI in system engineering and (2) existing AI applications in system engineering. A morning discussion centered on large system engineering problems that could benefit from AI: modelbased system engineering, the monitoring of the effects of change in large systems, organizational aspects of system engineering, and the integration of software into large systems.