Abstract
Since design is a process in which designers use various kinds of knowledge and it is an open-ended problem, it is difficult to prepare all necessary knowledge before design. Also, due to advances of technology, design knowledge is largely fragmental and compartmentized. This makes the communication among design experts or design agents difficult. Due to these, a knowledge sharing mechanism among agents based on a common ontology is needed even for collecting design knowledge. In this paper, first we analyze the nature and structure of design knowledge. Then, we propose a knowledge collection methodology through design object modeling and verify the method with an example of the suspension design for a motorcycle. Finally, we identify knowledge that should be prepared before the design process and that can be collected during modeling processes.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
AIEDAM (1996) Special Issue: Machine Learning in Design, in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), Vol. 10, No. 2.
Cutkosky, M.R., et al. (1993), PACT: An experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems. IEEE Computer, Vol. 26, No. 1, 28–37.
Genesereth, M.R., and Fikes, R.E. (1992) Knowledge interchange format, version 3.0 reference manual. Technical report logic-92-1, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford.
Guha, R.V. and Lenat, D.B. (1994) Cyc: Enabling agents to work together. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 7, 126–142.
Hix, C.F. and Alley, R.P. (1958) Physical Laws and Effects. John Wiley & Sons, London.
Ishii, M., Sekiya, T., and Tomiyama, T. (1995) A very large-scale knowledge base for the knowledge intensive engineering framework, in Toward Very Large Knowledge Bases, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Oxford, Tokyo, 123–131.
Sekiya, T. and Tomiyama, T. (1997) Case studies of ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework, in Knowledge Intensive CAD, Vol. 2, Chapman & Hall, London, 139-156.
Tomiyama, T. (1994) From general design theory to knowledge-intensive engineering, in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), Vol. 8, No. 4, 319–333.
Tomiyama, T., et al. (1997) The Modeling of Synthesis-From the Viewpoint of Design Knowledge. Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 97, Vol.3, 97–100.
Yoshioka, M., Tomiyama, T. (1997) Pluggable Metamodel Mechanism: A framework of an Integrated Design Object Modelling Environment, in Proceedings of CACD’97, 57-70, Lancaster University, Lancaster.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1998 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Yoshioka, M., Sekiya, T., Tomiyama, T. (1998). Design Knowledge Collection by Modeling. In: Jacucci, G., Olling, G.J., Preiss, K., Wozny, M.J. (eds) Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century. PROLAMAT 1998. IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35351-7_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35351-7_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4899-0124-8
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-35351-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive