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Typed feature structures and design space exploration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

R. WOODBURY ,
A. BURROW ,
S. DATTA  and
T-W. CHANG
R. WOODBURY
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
A. BURROW
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
S. DATTA
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
T-W. CHANG
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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Abstract

Design space explorers are computer programs that play on an exploration metaphor to support design. They assist designers in creating alternative designs by structuring the process of design creation in a space of alternatives. Subsidiary metaphors relevant to design space explorers are generation, navigation, and reuse. This paper introduces, in two sketches, typed feature structures as a formal system in which a design space explorer and its knowledge level might be implemented. First, informal and abstract properties of typed feature structures suffice to build a sketch of the behavior of a design space explorer. Second, using an example based on single-fronted cottages (a common Australian housing type), we outline the typed feature structure machinery most relevant to design space exploration.

Keywords

ExplorationGenerationNavigationReuseDesign Spaces
Type
Research Article
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , September 1999 , pp. 287 - 302
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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