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Constructing Design Representations

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Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture (EG-ICE 2006)

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Supporting the early phases of design requires, among others, support for the specification and use of multiple and evolving representations, and for the exchange of information between these representations. We consider a complex adaptive system as a model for the development of design representations, and present a semi-constructive algebraic formalism for design representations, termed sorts, as a candidate for supporting this approach. We analyze sorts with respect to the requirements of a complex adaptive system and compare it to other representational formalisms that consider a constructive approach to representations.

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  1. Design Informatics Chair, Dept. of Building Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Berlageweg 1, 2628, CR, Delft, The Netherlands

    Rudi Stouffs & Albert ter Haar

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 18, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Ian F. C. Smith

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Stouffs, R., ter Haar, A. (2006). Constructing Design Representations. In: Smith, I.F.C. (eds) Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture. EG-ICE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11888598_58

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