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Creativity is ubiquitous but crucial in many fields of human activity. This paper endeavors to explore a scientific basis for creativity in engineering design. First, creativity is extensively reviewed from the standpoint of different disciplines — philosophy, psychology, and computer sciences. Computational modeling of creativity is then considered, and a mathematical model of the design process is proposed. Finally, creative reasoning is explicated in terms of the introduced model, and some by-effects of creativity, including the phenomena of externality and emergence, are discussed. There is a fairly large bibliography.
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Kryssanov, V.V., Tamaki, H., Ueda, K. (1999). The mechanism of creative reasoning and emergent constructions in conceptual design. In: Kals, H., van Houten, F. (eds) Integration of Process Knowledge into Design Support Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1901-8_21
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