A huge amount of data is generated daily leading to big data challenges. One of them is
related to text mining, especially text classification. To perform this task we usually need a …

In today's manufacturing industry, companies are striving to provide customized products to
maintain competitiveness. The challenge of design customization lies in the company's …

Having passed the primitive phases and starting to revolutionize many different fields in
some way, artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming a disruptive technology. It is also …

Reducing the impact of conflicts on requirement-function-structure map** in the early
stage of product design is an important measure to achieve conceptual innovation, which …

We review the scholarly contributions that utilise natural language processing (NLP)
techniques to support the design process. Using a heuristic approach, we gathered 223 …

There are growing efforts to mine public and common-sense semantic network databases
for engineering design ideation stimuli. However, there is still a lack of design ideation aids …

Conceptual design evaluation is a significant challenge in product development to select
suitable conceptual schemes (CS). Relying on decision makers'(DMs) personal experience …

Product innovation design process involves a great deal of discrete engineering knowledge,
limiting the ability of designers to quickly utilize this knowledge to support design innovation …

Conceptual design is an important part of new product development (NPD) since it relies on
performance, quality, and cost restrictions from users during the design process, and it has a …

Purpose Some prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) studies obtain information from
patents, albeit without exploiting their full potential. The objective of this study is to show …