Artificial Intelligence in Design '98

The development of computational models of design founded on the artificial intelligenceparadigm has provided an impetus for muchofcurrentdesign research. As artificial intelligence has matured and developed new approaches so the impact ofthese new approaches on design research has been felt. This can be seen in the wayconcepts from cognitive science has found theirway into artificial intelligence and hence into design research. And, also in the way in which agent-based systems arebeingincorporated into design systems. In design research there is an increasing blurring between notions drawn from artificial intelligence and those drawn from cognitive science. Whereas a number of years ago the focus was largely on applying artificial intelligence to designing as an activity, thus treating designing as a form ofproblem solving, today we are seeing a much wider variety ofconceptions of the role of artificial intelligence in helping to model and comprehend designing as a process. Thus, we see papers in this volume which have as their focus the development or implementationofframeworks for artificial intelligence in design - attempting to determine a unique locus for these ideas. We see papers which attempt to find foundations for the development of tools based on the artificial intelligence paradigm; often the foundations come from cognitive studiesofhuman designers.

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The papers in this volume are from the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design held in July 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal. They represent the state of the art and the cutting edge of research and development in this field. This volume demonstrates both the breadth and depth of artificial intelligence in design and points the way forward for our understanding of design as a process and for the development of advanced computer-based tools to aid designers. The paper describes advances in both theory and applications. br/ This volume will be of particular interest to researchers, developers and users of advanced computer systems in design.

Inhalt
1 Frameworks for AI in Design.- Towards a knowledge level theory of design process.- Designing with the Activity/Space ontology.- Model-based reconfiguration.- 2 Object Representation in Design.- Managing conceptual design objects: An alternative to geometry.- Multiple perspectives of design objects.- Object representation and reasoning using halfspaces and logic.- 3: Knowledge Representation in Design.- Strategic knowledge in compositional design models.- Representation of embedded engineering knowledge for design.- Shape pattern recognition using a computable pattern representation.- 4: Foundations for Design Tools.- Typological knowledge acquisition through a schema of generic representations.- Cognitive theory as a guide to automating the configuration design process.- Analysis of cognitive processes of a designer as the foundation for support tools.- 5: Designing Using Constraints.- A MAD approach for solving part-selection problems.- Topological enumeration heuristics in constraint-based space layout planning.- A constraint-based approach to supporting conceptual design.- 6: Case-Based Design.- Towards mechanical design object reuse: The description, retrieval and classification of cases.- Topological pattern and geometric shape matching for layout case retrieval.- Exploiting similarity theory for case-based reasoning in real-valued engineering design problems.- 7: Languages and Design.- Generating structural essays from languages of discrete structures.- A framework of multilingual representation of a design world on the basis of philosophy of language.- Aspects of a language model for designing.- 8: Design Support.- Method-specific knowledge compilation: Towards practical design support systems.- Mapping between product structures: Supported by computer during the conceptual design of production machines.- A features framework for architectural information: Dynamic models for design.- 9: Exploration in Design.- Supporting explorative configuration.- Designing a shape grammar: Problems of predictability.- A preliminary investigation of design simplification by analogy.- 10: Agent-Based Approaches to Design.- Information and knowledge sharing for distributed design agents.- Distributed agents supporting event-driven design processes.- A-Design: Theory and implementation of an adaptive, agent-based method of conceptual design.- 11: Collaboration and Concurrent Engineering in Design.- Supports for information and communication in a collaborative building project: An information, communication and collaboration system for the Swiss AEC industry.- Adaptive retrieval and presentation of information in preference-influenced collaborative design environments.- A concurrent engineering approach for supporting weld product design at early stages of the design process.- Artificial neural network-based approach for design of parts for cellular manufacturing.- First author electronic addresses.- Author index.