Casing program design

Rl accomplishes this task correctiy in a fraction of the time it would take for human technicians. The savings in this case are in terms of the number of orders processed, which ultimately translates to doUars. As a final example, consider Prospector, another classic expert system built in the 1970s (4). This computer program, designed to detect commercially viable ore deposits based on geological data, correctiy identified a molybdenum ore deposit worth about 100 million. 

Several major chemical firms have active research programs designed to exploit the fluorination of polymeric materials. There are now at least five cases of special applications that have been successful in pilot plant operations and are being converted to production facilities. 

There appears to be no doubt that the design concerns that have been discussed are important in the specific case of designing facilities for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The degree to which the architectural environment supports the medical program at the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre, and at other hospitals that have been designed with perceptual considerations in mind, has not yet been measured and may be difficult to measure. However, there is a slow accumulation of information confirming the validity of the argument that the environment does have contributory effects and merits serious concern. Some of this information comes from former patients and chronic patients who, in their lucid moments, have described their environmental needs. 

Search problems can be divided into two groups, depending on whether or not random experimental error is associated with each measurement. There are, indeed, significant problems that have no experimental error as when the function in question is given as an exact mathematical expression, but one too complicated to be optimized directly by calculus or by known methods of mathematical programming. Design problems are often of this latter nature. We shall discuss mainly the no-error case, since its principles are simple and can be used even in the presence of experimental error. 

In the exploration and appraisal drilling and development phase, pressure prediction is a pre-requisite for safe and economic drilling, where an optimized casing and mud program design can avoid well control problems. 

Utilize Test Cases and Peer Review in Program Design... 

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