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SUMMARY:Retrieving Design Rationale for Re-use in New Designs - Hongwei Wa
 ng - Engineering Design Centre
DTSTART:20090610T153000Z
DTEND:20090610T163000Z
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CONTACT:Tiziano Ghisu
DESCRIPTION:Hongwei is a second year PhD research student in the Knowledge
  Management Group within the EDC.\n\nAbstract: Design rationale records th
 e issues addressed\, the options considered\, and the reasons for making t
 he specific decisions\, during a design process. Design rationale capture 
 tools\, i.e. the DRed of the EDC\, are gaining increasing acceptance in in
 dustry. A large amount of design rationale records are\, therefore\, gener
 ated during the routine design tasks. However\, it is usually frustrating 
 for designers to find a piece of rationale from a huge amount of entries\,
  which makes the computer-aided retrieval a necessity. Current retrieval m
 ethods focus mainly on either the classification of rationale or the key-w
 ord based search of records. The pitfalls of these methods are obvious. Fi
 rst\, a classification scheme imposes a large burden on experts. Second\, 
 key-word based search requires the designers to understand\, at least to s
 ome extent\, what they are seeking for. The ultimate goal of this research
  is to develop an efficient retrieval strategy for design rationale record
 s captured using DRed\, and to implement it as an add-on to DRed. In this 
 talk\, the up-to-date progress of this project will be introduced. Specifi
 cally\, the preliminary results will be presented and future work will be 
 discussed.\n
LOCATION:Marshall's meeting room (next to EDC loft)\, Inglis Building\, En
 gineering Department
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