Spatial planning is about dealing with our'everyday'environment. In A Planner's Encounter
with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment …

This paper provides a survey on recent research in the area of design rationale. The study of
design rationale spans a number of diverse disciplines, touching on concepts from research …

Rationale is the justification behind decisions. It is captured and used in many different forms
during software engineering. While it has not achieved widespread use in practice, several …

Engineering design processes comprise highly creative and knowledge-intensive tasks that
involve extensive information exchange and communication among distributed teams. In …

Tight time and cost constraints force chemical process industries to continuously reduce
their experimental effort during chemical process development and to facilitate the …

Research into heat exchanger network (HEN) retrofit has focused on either complete
automation or evolutionary, thermodynamic approaches. The former involves the solution of …

The reuse of previous design knowledge is a potentially important way to improve design
efficiency. In practice, however, design reuse is plagued with difficulties, including those …

This paper presents a new integrated tool and decision support framework to approach
complex problems resulting from the interaction of many multi-criteria issues. The framework …

Rapid technological change has had an impact on the nature of software. This has led to
new exigencies and to demands for software engineering paradigms that pay particular …

A semantic information model to improve reuse and communication of engineering design
knowledge is presented in this paper. We consider design to be a process involving a …