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Extending the Flexibility of Case-Based Design Support Tools: A Use Case in the Architectural Domain

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2017)

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This paper presents results of a user study into extending the functionality of an existing case-based search engine for similar architectural designs to a flexible process-oriented case-based support tool for the architectural conceptualization phase. Based on a research examining the target group’s (architects) thinking and working processes during the early conceptualization phase (especially during the search for similar architectural references), we identified common features for defining retrieval strategies for a more flexible case-based search for similar building designs within our system. Furthermore, we were also able to infer a definition for implementing these strategies into the early conceptualization process in architecture, that is, to outline a definition for this process as a wrapping structure for a user model. The study was conducted among the target group representatives (architects, architecture students and teaching personnel) by means of applying the paper prototyping method and Business Processing Model and Notation (BPMN). The results of this work are intended as a foundation for our upcoming research, but we also think it could be of wider interest for the case-based design research area.

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    Metis – Knowledge-based search and query methods for the development of semantic information models for use in early design phases. Funded by DFG (German Research Foundation).

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    https://camunda.org/features/modeler/.

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    The designs for CL2 and CL3 were taken from Flickr. In Fig. 3: 1391 Second Floor Plan https://www.flickr.com/photos/philmanker/3516873511/ by Phil Manker, CC-BY 2.0; Architecture and Building, 1922 https://www.flickr.com/photos/revivaling/5549896664/ by Learn From. Build More., CC-BY-SA 2.0; A104: Level 2 Dimensioned Floor Plan https://www.flickr.com/photos/therichardlife/5574176101/ by Stefanie Richard, CC-BY-SA 2.0; 216 Brookwood floor plan - Main Floor https://www.flickr.com/photos/homesbycharlotte/26899442344/ and 216 Brookwood floor plan - 2nd Floor https://www.flickr.com/photos/homesbycharlotte/27409880812/ by Charlotte Turner, Public Domain/all scaled from original. All visited on 23.04.17.

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    In our research, we use the following classification of degrees of similarity since [1]: very similar, similar, sufficiently similar, and unsimilar.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Samelsonplatz 1, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

    Viktor Ayzenshtadt & Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. Kaiserslautern University, P.O. Box 3049, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Trippstadter Strasse 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Viktor Ayzenshtadt, Saqib Bukhari, Klaus-Dieter Althoff & Andreas Dengel

  4. Chair of Architectural Informatics, Faculty of Architecture Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333, Munich, Germany

    Christoph Langenhan & Frank Petzold

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Ayzenshtadt, V., Langenhan, C., Bukhari, S., Althoff, KD., Petzold, F., Dengel, A. (2017). Extending the Flexibility of Case-Based Design Support Tools: A Use Case in the Architectural Domain. In: Aha, D., Lieber, J. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10339. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61030-6_4

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