This paper commences by outlining notions of creativity before examining the role of emergence in creative design. Various process models of emergence are presented; these are based on notions of additive and substitutive variables resulting in additive and substitutive schemas. Frameworks for both representation and process for a computational model of creative design are presented. The repres...

in this paper, the problem of layout optimization for x-bracing of steel frames is studied using the ant system (as). a new design method is employed to share the gravity and the lateral loads between the main frame and the bracings according to the requirements of the ibc2006 code. an algorithm is developed which is called optimum steel designer (osd). an optimization method based on an approx...

The objective of this research is to develop a turbine blade investment casting cost advisor model to assist a blade designer in decision-making in a concurrent engineering environment. It is a microcomputer based cost estimating system that employs a manufacturing knowledge base. The concept of the manufacturing process for blade production by the investment casting method is used to develop t...

This research studied how English and Chinese speakers encode their criticisms in the media discourse, aiming to explore correlation between speakers’ applications of pragmalinguistic strategies sociocultural orientations. Criticisms analyzed present study were collected from evaluative communications elicited US-based talent competition Project Runway Taiwan-based Super Designer . The current ...

Traditionally the information systems (IS) designer has followed simple concepts of organisational functioning based overwhelmingly on ideas of management control. Data from operational activity will be processed to become information for management to use in planning, decision making and supervision. While this viewpoint fits some organisations it is not appropriate to all. Organisational cult...