NETSYN : a connectionist approach to synthesis knowledge acquisition and use Nenad Ivezic James Henry. Garrett Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center. 10.1184/R1/6469070.v1 https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/NETSYN_a_connectionist_approach_to_synthesis_knowledge_acquisition_and_use/6469070 Abstract: "The goal of machine learning for synthesis is the acquisition of the relationships between form, function, and behavior properties that satisfy design requirements. The proposed approach creates a function to estimate the probability of each possible value of each design property being used in a given design context. NETSYN uses a connectionist learning approach to acquire and represent this probability estimation function and exhibits good performance for a posed artificial design problem. The objective of future work is to apply NETSYN to realistic design domains, specifically the domain of computer system design as practiced by M1." 1992-01-01 00:00:00 Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems)