Design space exploration revisited

Design involves reasoning about descriptions of design artefacts, reasoning about design requirements and reasoning about design process objectives (such as keeping to deadlines and available budget). Reasoning about these three aspects occurs during exploration, generation and evaluation of partial design descriptions. Design space exploration involves exploration in all three related spaces: the space of partial descriptions of design artefacts, the space of design requirements, and the space of design process objectives. These spaces are vast. Explicit representation of the relations between elements in these three spaces provides the additional information needed to understand and reuse descriptions of partial design process traces, and to guide design exploration. Woodbury and Burrow (2005) describe one of these spaces, namely the space of design object descriptions, as a network of partial and intentional descriptions of design artefacts. The links between partial descriptions re...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: AIEDAM
• Authors: Pieter H. G. van Langen, Frances M. T. Brazier
• Keywords: AIEDAM 2006, Descriptions, Design, Design Process Objectives