A DATA MINING APPROACH TO ASSIST DESIGN KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON KEYWORD ASSOCIATIONS
DS 84: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference
Year: 2016
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad, Skec Stanko
Author: Shi, F.; Han, J.; Childs, P. R. N.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN INNOVATION
Page(s): 1125-1134
Abstract
Design knowledge retrieval is a key part for creative idea generation in engineering design process, and it highly depends on the inherent associations between knowledge. Existing computer-based knowledge networks such as WordNet and ConceptNet are based on hypernym and hyponym and mainly focus on commonsense. This paper proposed a data mining approach to construct a professional knowledge concepts network by exploring the inherent associations between keywords. A software tool was developed to justify its effects on assisting design knowledge retrieval by using an engineering case study.
Keywords: design knowledge, problem solving, data mining, keywords association, association rules