The interdisciplinary engineering knowledge genome

Reich, Yoram; Shai, Offer

doi:10.1007/s00163-012-0129-x

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“…Works have been done on design and logic, based on the notion of imaginative constructivism (Hendriks andKazakçi 2010, 2011;Kazakçi 2013); on design and models of independence like matroid Le Masson et al 2015b) ; on design and set theory, showing that there is a general design theory within set theory called Forcing (Hatchuel and Weil 2007;Hatchuel et al 2013b); and on design and category theory (Giesa et al 2015, Breiner andSubrahmanian 2016). This led to novel results on generative functions (forcing, fractality…), to new approaches of system engineering (Kokshagina 2014), to the notion of the interdisciplinary engineering knowledge genome (Reich and Shai 2012), etc.…”

Section: -Stimulate New Connections With Contemporary Mathematics Anmentioning

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Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering

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In recent years, the works on Design Theory (and particularly the works of the Design Theory SIG of the Design Society) have contributed to reconstruct the science of design, comparable in its structure, foundations and impact to Decision Theory, Optimization or Game Theory in their time. These works have reconstructed historical roots and the evolution of design theory, conceptualized the field at a high level of generality and uncovered theoretical foundations, in particular the logic of generativity, the "designoriented" structures of knowledge, and the logic of design spaces. These results give the academic field of engineering design an ecology of scientific objects and models, which allows for expanding the scope of engineering education and design courses. They have contributed to a paradigm shift in the organization of R&D departments, supporting the development of new methods and processes in innovation departments, and to establishing new models for development projects. Emerging from the field of engineering design, design theory development has now a growing impact in many disciplines and academic communities. The research community may play significant role in addressing contemporary challenges if it brings the insights and applicability of Design Theory to open new ways of thinking in the developing and developed world.

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“…Our focus is motivated by the fundamental understanding that ideation is the analogical transfer, synthesis, blending, or transformation of existing technologies or knowledge into new ones (Weisberg, 2006; Linsey, 2007; Arthur, 2009; Hatchuel and Weil, 2009; Taura and Nagai, 2012). However, a designer's prior knowledge and expertise may influence his or her ability to conceive the relevance of other technologies, in particular those in distant domains (Shai and Reich, 2004; Hatchuel and Weil, 2009; Reich and Shai, 2012).…”

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Design opportunity conception using the total technology space map

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Song

Blessing

et al. 2018

AIEDAM

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Traditionally, design opportunities and directions are conceived based on expertise, intuition, or time-consuming user studies and marketing research at the fuzzy front end of the design process. Herein, we propose the use of the total technology space map (TSM) as a visual ideation aid for rapidly conceiving high-level design opportunities. The map is comprised of various technology domains positioned according to knowledge proximity, which is measured based on a large quantity of patent data. It provides a systematic picture of the total technology space to enable stimulated ideation beyond the designer's knowledge. Designers can browse the map and navigate various technologies to conceive new design opportunities that relate different technologies across the space. We demonstrate the process of using TSM as a rapid ideation aid and then analyze its applications in two experiments to show its effectiveness and limitations. Furthermore, we have developed a cloud-based system for computer-aided ideation, that is, InnoGPS, to integrate interactive map browsing for conceiving high-level design opportunities with domain-specific patent retrieval for stimulating concrete technical concepts, and to potentially embed machine-learning and artificial intelligence in the map-aided ideation process.

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“…Shai and Reich (Reich and Shai 2012;Shai and Reich 2004) developed approaches to analogical retrieval of knowledge structures and processes that allow the use of across domains. A system was developed by Ahmed for helping designers to index and build a knowledge network based on engineering designer queries, which generates associations between concepts, with the end goal of aiding in the search for information, reformulation of a query, and prompting design tasks (Ahmed 2005).…”

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Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

Murphy

Yang

et al. 2014

Res Eng Design

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Design-by-analogy is a growing field of study and practice, due to its power to augment and extend traditional concept generation methods by expanding the set of generated ideas using similarity relationships from solutions to analogous problems. This paper presents the results of experimentally testing a new method for extracting functional analogies from general data sources, such as patent databases, to assist designers in systematically seeking and identifying analogies. In summary, the approach produces significantly improved results on the novelty of solutions generated and no significant change in the total quantity of solutions generated. Computationally, this design-by-analogy facilitation methodology uses a novel functional vector space representation to quantify the functional similarity between represented design problems and, in this case, patent descriptions of products. The mapping of the patents into the functional analogous words enables the generation of functionally relevant novel ideas that can be customized in various ways. Overall, this approach provides functionally relevant novel sources of design-byanalogy inspiration to designers and design teams.

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The interdisciplinary engineering knowledge genome

Cited by 29 publications

References 75 publications

Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering

Design theory: a foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering

Design opportunity conception using the total technology space map

Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

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