THE RETRIEVAL OF STRUCTURED DESIGN KNOWLEDGE

DS 68-6: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 6: Design Information and Knowledge, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Chen, W.
Author: Wang, Hongwei; Johnson, Aylmer L.; Bracewell, Rob H.
Series: ICED
Section: Design Information and Knowledge Management
Page(s): 303-312

Abstract

n knowledge in new design projects. Specifically, methods for utilising various structured information are developed and implemented on a prototype keyword-based retrieval system developed in our earlier work. The implementation and evaluation of these methods shows that the structured information can be utilised in a number of ways, such as filtering the results and providing more complete information. This allows the retrieval system to present results that are easy to understand, and which closely match designers’ queries.

Keywords: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ENGINEERING DESIGN; DESIGN RATIONALE

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