In the past two decades, there has been increasing use of semantic networks in engineering
design for supporting various activities, such as knowledge extraction, prior art search, idea …

Analogy is a core cognition process used to produce inferences as well as new ideas using
previous knowledge and experience. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of domain …

In a highly technologically-advanced mature society, a shift in focus occurs from quantitative
to qualitative innovation. This paper discusses this shift from the perspective of design. We …

Idea generation is significant in design, but coming up with creative ideas is often
challenging. This paper presents a computer-based tool, called the Combinator, for assisting …

Thisstudy providesan overview of the current state of design thinking. Through a review of
the literature, the paper surveys the basic viewpoints of design thinking, paying particular …

Big-data mining brings new challenges and opportunities for engineering design, such as
customer-needs mining, sentiment analysis, knowledge discovery, etc. At the early phase of …

Human creativity generates novel ideas to solve real-world problems. This thereby grants us
the power to transform the surrounding world and extend our human attributes beyond what …

A framework that integrates the fragmented elements of concept derivation, processing, and
translation is developed and discussed. This framework aims to consolidate the divergent …

Data-driven design is a process to reuse data sources and provide valuable information to
provoke creative ideas in the stages of design. However, existing semantic networks for …

This paper proposes the Uncertainty Driven Action (UDA) model, which unifies the
fragmented literature on design activity. The UDA model conceptualises design activity as a …