Computation and conceptual design
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Karl Ulrich; Warren Seering
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Article
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1988
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Design is the transformation between a functional and a structural description of a device. Conceptual design is the initial stage of this transformation. We hypothesize that most new designs are derived from knowledge of existing designs. We identify a special case of this process and call it novel