Artificial Intelligence in Design ’92

1 Configuration Design.- A system for supporting design configuration.- Domain-independent design system: environment for rapid development of configuration-design systems.- Functional reasoning in configurational design.- Automated configuration design of hydraulic systems.- 2 Constraint Processes in Design.- Supporting multiple perspectives: a constraint-based approach to concurrent engineering.- Constraint satisfaction as a planning process.- A large scale, multiple constraint network system for design for testability for printed wiring boards.- 3 Cooperative Design.- Modeling heterogeneous engineering knowledge as transactions between delegating objects.- Multiple agent cooperative design evaluation using negotiation.- Building modeling based on concepts of autonomy.- 4 Design Object Modeling.- Representing design objects in SORAC: a data model with semantic objects, relationships and constraints.- SHOOD: a design object model.- Basic structure of a building model for representingand using knowledge of buildings in CAAD systems.- 5 Shape Design.- Two-dimensional structural component shape improvement via classifier system.- Grammars of features in design.- An improved shape annealing algorithm for optimally directed shape generation.- 6 Integrated Design Environments.- The integrated design framework: supporting the design process using a Black Board system.- IIDE: an integrated intelligent design environment for automation in design process and management.- KASE: an integrated environment for software design.- 7 Design Rationale.- DRCS: an integrated system for capture of designs and their rationale.- Toward a knowledge medium for collaborative product development.- Enduring support: on defeasible reasoning in design support systems.- 8 Case-Based Reasoning in Design—.- AskJef: integration of case-based reasoning and multimedia technologies for interface design support.- DEJAVU: a case-based reasoning designer’s assistant shell.- A case-based design aid for architecture.- 9 Case-Based Reasoning in Design—.- A model-based approach to blame-assignment in design.- A study on structural optimum design based on qualitative sensitivities.- Adaptation of spatial design cases.- 10 Design Analysis.- An intelligent modelling assistant for preliminary analysis in design.- Design verification through function- and behavior-oriented representations: bridging the gap between function and behavior.- Issues in incremental analysis of assemblies for concurrent design.- 11 Architectures for Design Knowledge.- Structuring design knowledge on the basis of generic components.- PROBER—A design system based on design prototypes.- Explicit representation of design process knowledge.- 12 Learning in Design.- Machine learning techniques in optimal design.- Incremental learning for improved decision support in knowledge based design systems.- Application of a neural network to simulate analysis in an optimization process.- 13 Conceptual Design.- A computational modelfor conceptual design based on function logic.- Using network-based prototypes to support creative design by mutation and analogy.- A design support system using analogy.- 14 Design Processes.- Hierarchical generate-and-test vs constraint-directed search: a comparison in the context of layout synthesis.- Opportunistic and goal-oriented behaviour in software design: combining empirical and theoretical studies in cognitive modelling.- On the relevance and treatment of categories in AI and design.- Heuristic decision support problems: integrating heuristic search and expert systems for the design of continuous-manufacturing products.- 2+3 model: fractal processes for knowledge-based engineering design.- Author index.- Author electronic addresses.