Adaptation of design cases is usually the most challenging part in building any case-based reasoning design system. The success of the adaptation process in finding a solution for a new design problem determines the success of the entirecase-based reasoning (CBR) system. The techniques used for generating design solutions have many common aspects among the various engineering design classes that make them amenable to be captured in a generic framework for an acceptable level ofabstraction. This paper proposes a design-plan-oriented methodology for adapting design cases to produce a solution to a new design problem in the domain of engineering design. The proposed methodology uses multicase adaptation and case built-inadaptation knowledge to produce a design plan for a new design problem. We first define the model of case representation to work with the proposed methodology. We then define the overall structure of the procedural framework of this methodology and itssubprocesses. The system is then demonstrated through an application from the structural engineering domain.
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