Evaluating quantitative measures for assessing functional similarity in engineering design

A Nandy, A Dong… - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The development of example-based design support tools, such as those used for design-by-
analogy, relies heavily on the computation of similarity between designs. Various vector-and …

Do human and computational evaluations of similarity align? An empirical study of product function

A Nandy, K Goucher-Lambert - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Function drives many early design considerations in product development, highlighting the
importance of finding functionally similar examples if searching for sources of inspiration or …

A comparison of vector and network-based measures for assessing design similarity

A Nandy, A Dong… - … and Information in …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In order to retrieve analogous designs for design-by-analogy, computational systems require
the calculation of similarity between the target design and a repository of source designs …

Aligning human and computational evaluations of functional design similarity

A Nandy, K Goucher-Lambert - … and Information in …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Function drives many early design considerations in product development. Therefore,
finding functionally similar examples is important when searching for sources of inspiration …