Modelling the Emergence of Design Descriptions across Schemata

R D Coyne
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R D Coyne: Design Computing Unit, Deportment of Architectural and Design Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Environment and Planning B, 1991, vol. 18, issue 4, 427-458

Abstract: An exploration of how connectionist systems can be used to model Important aspects of design reasoning is presented: the way design appears to involve memory; and a ‘holistic’ kind of reasoning by which designs appear to emerge from that memory. A simple connectionist system is used to demonstrate how information about schemata (in this case, subfloor construction types) is stored implicitly after the system is exposed to a number of specific examples. New schemata can emerge from this information. The paper includes a discussion of design, a comparison between a connectionist and a frame-based approach to representing design knowledge, a technical explanation of a connectionist system, and the demonstration of an implemented example.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1068/b180427

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