personnel profile

Research Statement

Professor Fikes’ research is in the general area of knowledge representation and heuristic problem solving. He is currently leading projects to develop network-based information brokers, tools for building reusable ontologies, multi-use representations of engineering knowledge, and reasoning methods for performing core engineering tasks. Research topics in those projects include information integration, knowledge translation, qualitative modeling, functional modeling, automatic model formulation, compositional modeling, simulation of partially specified designs, generation of causal explanations, and logic-based knowledge interchange languages.

Degree	Discipline	Year	School
PhD		1968	Carnegie Mellon