Artificial Intelligence in Design ’96

✍ Scribed by Patrick Olivier, Keiichi Nakata, Malcolm Landon (auth.), John S. Gero, Fay Sudweeks (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 764
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Change is one of the most significant parameters in our society. Designers are amongst the primary change agents for any society. As a consequence design is an important research topic in engineering and architecture and related disciplines, since design is not only a means of change but is also one of the keystones to economic competitiveness and the fundamental precursor to manufacturing. The development of computational models founded on the artificial intelligence paradigm has provided an impetus for much of current design research -both computational and cognitive. These forms of design research have only been carried out in the last decade or so and in the temporal sense they are still immature. Notwithstanding this immaturity, noticeable advances have been made both in extending our understanding of design and in developing tools based on that understanding. Whilst many researchers in the field of artificial intelligence in design utilise ideas about how humans design as one source of concepts there is normally no attempt to model human designers. Rather the results of the research presented in this volume demonstrate approaches to increasing our understanding of design as a process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multi-Level Molecular Representation....Pages 3-20
Text Analysis for Constructing Design Representations....Pages 21-38
Learning Genetic Representations as Alternative to Hand-Coded Shape Grammars....Pages 39-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Reactive Design Agents in Solid Modelling....Pages 61-75
A Framework for Design Object Evolution....Pages 77-96
Creating Design Objects from Cases for Interactive Spatial Composition....Pages 97-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Integrating a Genetic Algorithm into a Knowledge-Based System for Ordering Complex Design Processes....Pages 119-133
AI in Control System Design Using a New Paradigm for Design Representation....Pages 135-150
Automated Design of Both the Topology and Sizing of Analog Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming....Pages 151-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
A Study of Case Adaptation Systems....Pages 173-189
Applying Formal Methods to Case Based Design AIDS....Pages 191-210
Designing Nutritional Menus Using Case-Based and Rule-Based Reasoning....Pages 211-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
On Design Formalization and Retrieval of Reuse Candidates....Pages 231-250
Design Rationale and Design Patterns in Reusable Software Design....Pages 251-268
Constraint-Based Retrieval of Engineering Design Cases....Pages 269-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
A Networks Approach For Representation and Evolution of Shape Grammars....Pages 291-310
Variable-Complexity Evolution of Shape Grammars for Engineering Design....Pages 311-324
Grammars for Machine Design....Pages 325-344
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Design Sheet: A System for Exploring Design Space....Pages 347-366
Using Modeling Knowledge to Guide Design Space Search....Pages 367-385
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Explanatory Interface in Interactive Design Environments....Pages 387-405
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Learning by Single Function Agents during Spring Design....Pages 409-428
A Machine Learning Approach to Automated Design Classification, Association and Retrieval....Pages 429-445
Learning to Choose a Reformulation for Numerical Optimization of Engineering Designs....Pages 447-462
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Virtual Building Site....Pages 465-483
A Mobile Agent-Oriented Approach to a Distributed Design Support System....Pages 485-504
Visionmanager: A Computer Environment for Design Evolution Capture....Pages 505-524
Front Matter....Pages 525-525
Elicitation of Rules for Graphic Design Evaluation....Pages 527-540
A Model-Based Tool for Finding Faults in Hardware Designs....Pages 541-559
On Knowledge Level Theories of Design Process....Pages 561-579
Front Matter....Pages 581-581
A Representation Scheme to Support Conceptual Design of Mechatronic Systems....Pages 583-602
Generating Conceptual Solutions on Funcsion: Evolution of a Functional Synthesiser....Pages 603-622
Adopting a Minimum Commitment Principle for Computer Aided Geometric Design Systems....Pages 623-639
Front Matter....Pages 641-641
The Generation of Form Using an Evolutionary Approach....Pages 643-662
Evolutionary Layout Design....Pages 663-680
DOM-ARCADE: Assistance Services for Construction, Evaluation, and Adaptation of Design Layouts....Pages 681-699
Front Matter....Pages 701-701
Emergent Behaviour in Co-Evolutionary Design....Pages 703-722
Innovative Design Based on Sharable Physical Knowledge....Pages 723-742
Assisting Creativity by Composite Representation....Pages 743-759
Skeleton-Based Techniques for the Creative Synthesis of Structural Shapes....Pages 761-780
Back Matter....Pages 781-782

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Engineering Design