A title in the "Engineering Research Series" "Constraint-Aided Conceptual
Design" is concerned with that phase of product development during which the
designer takes a specification for the product and generates many broad
solutions to achieve the end result. This valuable book offers a computational
reasoning solution based on the notion of constraint filtering as the basis of
an interactive design support tool to assist a human designer working in the
conceptual phase of design. Using this interactive design support tool, the
designer can be assisted in developing models of proposed schemes which satisfy
the various constraints that are imposed on the design.COMPLETE CONTENTS:
BackgroundTheoryImplementation strategyIllustration and validationConclusionsAn
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