Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

Although the importance of knowledge sharing among designers has been widely
recognized, knowledge about functionality in the conceptual design phase is hard to capture …

It has been recognized that design knowledge is scattered around technology and target
domains. One of the two major reasons for it is that different frameworks (viewpoints) for …

In conceptual design of engineering devices, a designer decomposes a required function
into sub-functions, so-called functional decomposition, using a kind of functional knowledge …

Functionality of artifacts as well as structure and behavior plays crucial roles in problem-
solving such as design. This article discusses automatic identifications of functional …

3D content stored in big databases or shared on the Internet is a precious resource for
several applications, but unfortunately it risks being underexploited due to the difficulty of …

This paper introduces the development of a formal ontology based on spatiotemporal
mereotopology in the context of integrated assembly design and sequence planning. The …

During conceptual design of systems, the emphasis is on generating the system
architecture: the configuration of sub-systems and the interactions between them. Ports, as …

Capturing design knowledge and its modeling are crucial issues for design support systems
and design knowledge management. It is important that knowledge models are systematic …

Effective and efficient information management and knowledge sharing has become an
essential part of more and more professional tasks in the Product Development Process …