This work is aimed at establishing a common frame and understanding of function modeling
(FM) for our ongoing research activities. A comparative review of the literature is performed …

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 …

To realize a truly collaborative product design and development process, effective
communication among design collaborators is a must. In other words, the design intent that …

The Product–Service System (PSS) concept has been proposed as a promising avenue to
achieve sustainable consumption and production patterns and to improve the …

Knowledge management is one of the key enabling technologies of distributed engineering
enterprises. It encompasses a wide range of organizational, management and …

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

In this paper, we review the literature related to the reuse of computer-based simulation
models in the context of systems design. Models are used to capture aspects of existing or …

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 …

The use of ontologies to model the knowledge of specific domains represents a key aspect
for the integration of information coming from different sources, for supporting collaboration …

Because of the increasing complexity of products and the design process, as well as the
popularity of computer-aided documentation tools, the number of electronic and textual …