This paper argues that the widespread beliefthat ambiguity is beneficial in
designcommunication stems from conceptual confusion. Communicating imprecise …

Product design engineering is undergoing a transformation from informal and largely
experience-based discipline to a science-based domain. Computational intelligence (CI) …

Providing everybody with the right information at the right time is one of the greatest
challenges facing all organisations. This means providing relevant information and the right …

Artificial intelligence (AI) can assist business leaders in automating time-consuming and
labor-intensive operations such as data collection, aggregation, and purification. This …

Software development remains mentally challenging despite the continual advancement of
training, techniques, and tools. Because completely automating software development is …

Collaborative innovation and product development projects can be regarded as an
emerging challenge in innovation management, being partly reflected by the currently …

In engineering design, customers usually provide product requirements in the form of a
natural language while computer-aided design systems may prefer more formal and …

Abstract Knowledge based engineering (KBE) as a design method helps formulate a
comprehensive knowledge base as a virtual prototype which includes design intent …

Original scientific paper Product design engineering is a complex discipline, which is
undergoing a transformation from informal and largely experience-based domain to …

Design involves reasoning about descriptions of design artifacts, reasoning about design
requirements, and reasoning about design process objectives (such as keeping to …