Challenges resulting from an changing environment affect all design processes, irrespective
of whether the product designed is a machine, software, a building, services, etc.. These …

Complexity is often regarded as a “problem” to solve. Instead of attempting to solve
complexity, we follow systems engineering practices and switch back to the problem …

In many engineering design contexts models are indispensable. They offer decision support
and help tackle complex and interconnected design projects, capturing the underlying …

Adaptive façades (AFs) offer a range of benefits by automatically changing their properties to
promote improved shading, ventilation, or communication features. These can enable …

Functional modeling is a very significant part of many different well-known design
methodologies. This paper investigates the questions of what functional modeling …

Current industrial practice does not reflect the opportunities provided by state-of-the-art
design automation methods. The limited application of computational methods to support the …

Produktentwicklung erfordert Kooperation. Für die Entwicklung komplexer technischer
Produkte sind Fachkenntnisse aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen erforderlich, die die …

Data modeling is a process of developing a model to design and develop a data system that
supports an organization s various business processes. A conceptual data model represents …

Wissen ist einer der entscheidenden Faktoren in den Volkswirtschaften unserer Zeit. Der
Unternehmenserfolg wird in der Zukunft mehr denn je davon abhängen, wie schnell ein …

The creation and use of models is central to engineering design, to the extent that designing
might be perceived as a propagation from model to model and modelling may be described …