Abstract The quick and accurate estimation of design effort can be make or break for all but the largest product consultancies. Traditional project planning see designers being taken away from metaphorical drawing board to spend time assessing briefs estimating workloads. Typically these base estimates on their tacit knowledge experience, most part, they are accurate. However, this is time-cons...

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The paper presents a multi-facet methodology for interactive software creation which melts holistic, participatory, meta-design approaches to obtain usable, coevolutive domain specific applications. The proposed methodology is based on the definition of three Interaction Languages, each one permitting to express the conceptual model of a Visual Interactive System in the system of signs of the s...

In this paper, we describe the principles and methods of building an expert system for Earthquake Risk Zoning (ERZ) which is used to determine the dangerous earthquake areas for the engineering design. The innovations in the design of this system are (1). We use the ideas from the second generation expert system to combine expert empirical knowledge with traditional software. This enlarges the ...

Design and manufacturing are two very fundamental engineering processes in mechanical related fields. Traditionally design has been a manual process separated from manufacturing but concept of Concurrent Engineering with Design For Manufacture (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA) not only coupled both these but also increased complexity of design and thus brought about the application of compute...

This paper investigates expertise development in design – product (industrial) design in particular. The research concentrates on the modelling of design expertise. The research stands on the premise that knowledge — domain-specific knowledge in particular — plays a significant role in distinguishing a novice from an expert. The knowledge identification is based on the analysis of designers' vi...

The arrangement design of a submarine depends on the past design data and experts’ experiences. Delay in design can occur due to data missing or the absence of experts. In addition, various compartments and equipment are placed on the limited space called pressure hull in the submarine, so that the relation between the compartments and equipment should be considered carefully when designing the...

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