Abstract
Design is a very complicated problem-solving activity that uses many types of knowledge. Among them, decomposition knowledge is very important. Designers usually apply a divide-and-conquer approach to solve complicated design problems. That approach is guided by decomposition knowledge. The problem in which we are interested is how to obtain decomposition knowledge. Instead of acquiring it from design experts, is it possible to generate it from the problem specification plus other types of knowledge?
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Liu, J., Brown, D.C. (1994). Generating Design Decomposition Knowledge for Parametric Design Problems. In: Gero, J.S., Sudweeks, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Design ’94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0928-4_38
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