Using modeling knowledge to guide design space search

Using Modeling Knowledge to Guide Design Space Search

Automated search of a space of candidate designs seems an attractive way to improve the traditional engineering design process. To make this approach work, however, the automated design system must include both knowledge of the modeling limitations of the method used to evaluate candidate designs and also an eeective way to use this knowledge to innuence the search process. We suggest that a pr...

A Practical Guide to State Space Modeling

Design & Knowledge Modeling -knowledge Modeling as Design

The paper presents a cognitive analysis of design as a problem-solving activity. Design is characterized through results from empirical studies of various design tasks. Based on this characterization, it will be argued why and how knowledge modeling can be considered as a design task. Knowledge modeling has been qualified as the "construction of a set of successive representations". Processing ...

Using ACO to guide a CP search

Despite its doubtless success, Constraint Programming (CP) has to face two main challenges to develop its success: solving harder and harder problems, and being accessible to users with little to no CP expertise. To address these challenges, we are exploring the use of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to solve problems expressed in a regular CP Solver: ILOG Solver. Basically, ants iteratively buil...

Architectural Design Knowledge Modeling

We have presented an approach for automated knowledge modelling and re-use in design through the development of an algorithm that operates in conjunction with the machine learning technique. The approach presented has the advantage that such automated knowledge modelling system works in conjunction with the problem-solving process as the knowledge representation is in an embedded/distributed st...