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The paper deals with using a visual language and graph-based structures to support the conceptual phase of designing. The design ontology-based visual language is composed of design diagrams. A symbolic representation of design structures in terms of ontological objects and relations between them is defined, and then mapped into diagrams by a given realization. Diagrams are automatically transformed into the corresponding graph-based data structures. The knowledge stored in the graph representation of diagrams is transformed into first-order logic formulas and allows the design supporting system to reason about created designs. The approach is illustrated by examples of designing transmission towers.
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Ślusarczyk, G. (2011). Conceptual Design with the Use of Graph-Based Structures. In: Burduk, R., Kurzyński, M., Woźniak, M., Żołnierek, A. (eds) Computer Recognition Systems 4. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20320-6_9
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