TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a machine understandable language for design process representation
AU - Shah, Jami J.
AU - Bliznakov, Plamen I.
AU - Urban, Susan D.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This paper describes the work in progress at Arizona State University to develop a design process description language. The intent is to go beyond decision making level in recording design activities, thus providing a basis for broad application of the proposed representation. At the same time the granularity is limited to a feasible level. The design language proposed in this paper currently is Prolog-based. It is able to relate the sequence of actions to attributes of the design artifacts, thus, providing reference to the product data. Specifics of the design process which are reflected in a natural way include iterations of the activities, versioning of the designs, as well as reasons, purpose, constraints, and method/knowledge/technique used for design decisions (although the latter is currently done in a somewhat unstructured manner). The association between rationale, actions, and artifacts is captured, so explanation of previous designs is adequately supported.
AB - This paper describes the work in progress at Arizona State University to develop a design process description language. The intent is to go beyond decision making level in recording design activities, thus providing a basis for broad application of the proposed representation. At the same time the granularity is limited to a feasible level. The design language proposed in this paper currently is Prolog-based. It is able to relate the sequence of actions to attributes of the design artifacts, thus, providing reference to the product data. Specifics of the design process which are reflected in a natural way include iterations of the activities, versioning of the designs, as well as reasons, purpose, constraints, and method/knowledge/technique used for design decisions (although the latter is currently done in a somewhat unstructured manner). The association between rationale, actions, and artifacts is captured, so explanation of previous designs is adequately supported.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0027883102
SN - 0791811700
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division (Publication) DE
SP - 15
EP - 24
BT - Design Theory and Methodology
A2 - Shahinpoor, Mo
A2 - Tzou, H.S.
PB - Publ by ASME
T2 - 14th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise
Y2 - 19 September 1993 through 22 September 1993
ER -