Jeder weiss, was Konstruieren ist und dennoch weiss es keiner! Im Rahmen dieses Buches
soll eine mögliche Antwort auf die Frage–Was ist Konstruieren?–gegeben werden. Mit …

Engineering design consists of a variety of thought processes such as analysis, synthesis,
problem-solving, and decision-making. Among these, the most crucial process in design is …

Since design is a process in which designers use various kinds of knowledge and it is an
open-ended problem, it is difficult to prepare all necessary knowledge before design. Also …

In this paper, we discuss what properties the synthesis process should have as a thought
process and show a tentative synthesis theory. Instead of universality and minimality for …

Most of the previous research efforts for design process modeling had such assumptions as
“design as problem solving,”“design as decision making,” and “design by analysis,” and did …

While a considerable amount of research effort is spent on design theory and methodology,
we do not have a clear, uniform theory that can explain design synthesis universally and …

Synthesis plays a major role in design and abduction is regarded a critical element within a
creative synthesis process. While there are many research efforts for formalizing abduction …

Engineering design consists of a variety of thought processes, but most of them can be
classified into two types, analysis and synthesis. There is a need to build an advanced CAD …

The globalisation of the market has increased competition, requiring a reduction in time-to-
market for the developments of new products. Thus, the need to integrate and share …

1. Introduction In this paper, we investigate how synthesis process should be and propose a
preliminary result of logical formalization of synthesis process. Since we often mention …