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Our unified representation system for organising and recording engineering design results brings together formalisms from mechanical engineering design and software engineering. It specifically identifies two orthogonal axes of abstraction and explains many problems in engineering design formalisms, which lack this separation. The formalism supports qualitative and quantitative measures of design quality that can be used to evaluate alternative design structures. The formalism does not prescribe a specific design methodology, but the representation does provide bias toward more formal and reproducible design methods. Although the formalism is grounded in object-oriented information modelling, its application to engineering design problems is much broader than software development.
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Baskin, A.B., Lu, S.CY. (1999). Unified Representation systems for different levels of abstraction. In: Baskin, A.B., Kovács, G., Jacucci, G. (eds) Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design. PROLAMAT 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35357-9_13
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