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One of the major obstacles towards the realization of automated creative design lies in the restricting design frames explicitly or implicitly imposed by common means for design representation. In this paper it is proposed to extend these frames by improving the design representation with a description technique that is more suitable to capture conceptual decisions taking place in engineering during early design phases. In this context especially the description of topological arrangements or functional dependencies is emphasized. It is shown that the application of grammar techniques known from formal languages is well suited for the development of a compact description language for engineering design objects. This is illustrated in an example for a formal language of truss designs. Furthermore it is investigated how this new design representation approach can support “creative” engineering and where possible future research along these lines can be done.
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Alber, R., Rudolph, S. (2004). On a Grammar-Based Design Language That Supports Automated Design Generation and Creativity. In: Borg, J.C., Farrugia, P.J., Camilleri, K.P. (eds) Knowledge Intensive Design Technology. KIC 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 136. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35708-9_2
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