Engineering design : representation and reasoning / Clive L. Dym, David C. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dym, Clive L., author.

Brown, David C., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering design--Data processing.

Engineering design.

Computer-aided engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate concepts of design to lay a better framework for design research and design education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a substantial body of material concerned with understanding and modeling cognitive processes. This book adopts the vocabulary and a paradigm of AI to enhance the presentation and explanation of design. It includes concepts from AI because of their explanatory power and their utility as possible ingredients of practical design activity. This second edition has been enriched by the inclusion of recent work on design reasoning, computational design, AI in design, and design cognition, with pointers to a wide cross section of the current literature.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Framing the issues; 2. Engineering design; 3. Characterizing the design process; 4. Taxonomies of engineering design; 5. Representing designed artifacts; 6. Representing design processes; 7. Where do we go from here?.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22417-9

1-139-36539-8

1-280-66382-0

9786613640758

1-139-37790-6

1-139-03181-3

1-139-37504-0

1-139-37647-0

1-139-37105-3

1-139-37933-X

OCLC:

794327700