Engineering design : representation and reasoning

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Engineering design : representation and reasoning

Clive L. Dym, David C. Brown

Cambridge University Press, 2012

2nd ed

  • : hardback

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Originally published as: Engineering design : a synthesis of views / Clive L. Dym. 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-188) and index

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Description

Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts of design to lay a better framework for design research and design education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a substantial body of material concerned with understanding and modeling cognitive processes. This book adopts the vocabulary and a paradigm of AI to enhance the presentation and explanation of design. It includes concepts from AI because of their explanatory power and their utility as possible ingredients of practical design activity. This second edition has been enriched by the inclusion of recent work on design reasoning, computational design, AI in design, and design cognition, with pointers to a wide cross section of the current literature.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Framing the issues
  • 2. Engineering design
  • 3. Characterizing the design process
  • 4. Taxonomies of engineering design
  • 5. Representing designed artifacts
  • 6. Representing design processes
  • 7. Where do we go from here?

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