In this article, we describe a new simulation method for engineer ing applications. The architec ture development is one of the most important techniques among the AI research tasks. An integrated intelligent simulation system is a large knowledge integration environment that consists of both symbolic reasoning systems (expert systems) and numerical compu tation packages. These software programs are controlled by a meta-system, which manages the selection, operation and commu nication of these programs. This new architecture can serve as a universal configuration to develop the fifth generation simulation environment for many complicated applications.
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