Abstract
The automation of the design process is extremely difficult; design tasks are complex and ill-defined, and generally performed by experts who have many years’ experience. Design is a typically human endeavour, and as humans offer the only example of flexible and successful design systems, any attempt to automate the process should be informed by the theories and studies of human cognition. In this paper, the authors put forward this argument in greater depth, before presenting a general cognitive framework for one particular design task, that of configuration design, the task of selecting and connecting a set of domain components to satisfy a given set of requirements. This framework has permitted the implementation of an automated configuration design tool for the domain of fluid power systems.
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Darlington, M., Potter, S., Culley, S.J., Chawdhry, P.K. (1998). Cognitive Theory as a Guide to Automating the Configuration Design Process. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5121-4_11
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