Modeling design processes
Hideaki Takeda, Paul Veerkamp, Tetsuo Tomiyama, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa · Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands · 1990
Abstract: "This article aims at building a computable design process model which is a prerequisite for realizing intelligent CAD systems. First, we discuss design processes seen from a theoretical point of view, i.e. we introduce General Design Theory from which a descriptive model of design processes is derived. In this model, the concept of metamodels plays a crucial role to describe the evolutionary nature of design. Second, we examine design processes from a cognitive viewpoint. We show a cognitive design process model obtained by observing design processes using a protocol analysis method. Then, we discuss a computable model that can explain most parts of the cognitive model and that also can interpret the descriptive model