Evolving representations of design cases and (2009)
John S. Gero, Thorsten Schnier
their use in creative design
A COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL BASIS FOR DESIGNING (2008)
This paper presents a set of concepts that provides the cognitive and computational foundations for answering fundamental questions about designerly behaviour. A design agent should be dynamic and...
Educational and Research Directions in Design Computing and Virtual Architecture Abstract (2008)
John S. Gero, Mary Lou Maher, Rabee M. Reffat
This paper describes research and educational paradigms of Design Computing and Virtual Architecture. The paper provides examples of research projects and educational programs at the Key Centre of...
V.: A genetic engineering approach to genetic algorithms (2008)
John S. Gero, Vladimir Kazakov
We present an extension to the standard genetic algorithm (GA), which is based on concepts of genetic engineering. The motivation is to discover useful and harmful genetic materials and then execute...
USING AGENTS IN THE EXCHANGE OF PRODUCT DATA (2008)
Udo Kannengiesser, John S. Gero
Abstract: This paper describes using agents in the exchange of industrial product data when predefined translators are not available. A major problem with standard translators is that a seamless data...
Context and Design Agents (2008)
Abstract. Informal notions of context often imply much more than that captured in many computational formalisms of it. The view presented in this paper, built on our understanding of designing, is of...
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2008)
John S Gero, Udo Kannengiesser
Abstract: This paper presents a framework for situated design optimization that expands the traditional view of design optimization. It is based on the notion of interaction providing the potential...
How to make CAD tools more useful to designers through re- representation (2008)
ABSTRACT: This paper describes research that explores computational approaches to automatically developing multiple representations, with the aim of overcoming the limitation of fixed...
Using data mining on building maintenance during the (2008)
Rabee M. Reffat, John S. Gero, Wei Peng
building life cycle
Qualitative Approach to an Energy-based Unified Representation for Building Design (2008)
Archi Bond Graphs (ABGs) that have been developed as an energy-based unified representation for building design can be applied for the static and dynamic aspects of buildings. This paper presents...
1 Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2008)
ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approach to the analysis of the dynamics of team design activities. The goal is to contribute to the future development of computer mediated collaborative design...
Creative Social Systems (2008)
In this paper we present an approach based on the view that creativity is essentially determined by social evaluation and that any computational modelling of creativity needs to account for this....
AN ONTOLOGICAL MODEL OF EMERGENT DESIGN (2008)
John S Gero, Udo Kannengiesser
This paper proposes an ontological account of a recent model of software engineering: emergent design. This model augments traditional software design approaches by accounting for incremental and...
Research Methods for Design Science Research: Computational and Cognitive Approaches 1 (2008)
Research methods that claim to use the scientific approach in design research can be grouped into three categories: those founded on empirical evidence of human designing activity; those founded on...
11 Mutation and analogy to support creativity in computer-aided design (2008)
Creative processes in computer-aided design are identified as those that introduce new design variables into the design process. This paper describes the ideas behind the development of a...
2007, Locating creativity in a framework of designing for innovation (2008)
John S. Gero, Udo Kannengiesser
Abstract. This paper focuses on creativity in the process of designing as the foundation of potential innovations resulting from that process. Using an ontological framework that defines distinct...
Measuring the Information Content of Architectural Plans (2008)
Summary: (English) This paper describes and develops a preliminary approach to the measurement of the information content of two-dimensional design drawings. We utilise a general method for...
engineering and its relevance to (2008)
Computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) has come to mean a number of often disparate activities. These can be placed into one of two categories: using the computer as a drafting and, to a lesser...
DESCRIBING SITUATED DESIGN AGENTS (2008)
Abstract. Situated design agents are agents built using concepts from situated cognition. As situated design agents are constructive and
What is creativity? Generally, artefacts are labelled as creative if they are both novel and appropriate; individuals are regarded as creative if they produce creative works [1]. More specific...
Concept Formation in Design: Towards a Loosely-Wired Brain Model (2008)
Abstract: This paper presents a computationally tractable view on where simple concepts come from by proposing a paradigm for the formation of concepts based on the emergence of patterns in the...
3 A Locus for Knowledge-Based Systems in CAAD Education (2008)
This paper outlines a possible locus for knowledge-based systems in computeraided architectural design education. It commences with a review of computeraided architectural design and knowledge-based...
Improving neural network models of physical systems through dimensional analysis (2008)
David J. Gunaratnam, Taivas Degroff, John S. Gero
The paper presents a technique for generating concise neural network models of physical systems. The neural network models are generated through a two-stage process. The first stage uses information...
SEQUENCE-BASED PREDICTION IN THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN (2007)
Of Bridges, Weiyuan Wang, John S Gero
Summary This paper explores the application of a machine learning technique in knowledge support systems in civil engineering design. It presents a sequence-based prediction method for engineering...
The foundation of models of designing using concepts from artificial intelligence and systems theory is that any model is composed of variables and processes. One common description of an outline for...
What Are We Learning From Designers And Its Role In Future CAAD Tools (2007)
This paper outlines some of the design processes which are being researched based on our understanding of human designers and provides examples from some early implementations.
Exploring Style Emergence In Architectural Designs (2007)
John S. Gero, Lan Ding, Key Centre, Design Computing
. This paper presents an evolutionary approach to style emergence in architectural designs. Emergence is the process of making features explicit which were previously only implicit. Style is...
Research In Design Computing: An Artificial Intelligence Framework (2007)
John Gero Key, John S Gero, Key Centre, Design Computing
this paper we consider design computing as a research area which utilises these intellectual platforms, one in which the results of the research lead to more than additional computer programs and in...
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2007)
Abstract. This paper describes a computational model that
Abstract. This paper presents a series of computational models based
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2007)
John S Gero, Udo Kannengiesser
Abstract. This paper extends the Function-Behaviour-Structure (FBS)
Abstract. This paper presents a possible future direction for agentbased
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2007)
Abstract. Cognitive studies of designers often involve sketching, but
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (2007)
Udo Kannengiesser, John S Gero
Abstract. This paper outlines an approach to communication among
Computers and Creative Design 1 (2007)
Abstract. This paper introduces notions of creativity and creative design as a form of computational exploration. Exploration is used as a means of defining spaces which are then searched. It is...
2000, Constructed representations and their functions in computational models of designing (2007)
Abstract. This paper re-examines the conclusions made my Schön and Wiggins in 1992 that computers were unable to reproduce processes crucial to designing. We propose that recent developments in...
This paper takes the approach that designing is situated and that concepts are formed as a consequence od the this situatedness of designing. The papers presents a framework for concept formation...
Style Learning: Inductive Generalisation of Architectural Shape Patterns (2007)
Abstract. Art historians and critics have defined the style as common features appeared in a class of objects. Abstract common features from a set of objects have been used as a bench mark for date...
SPATIAL ASPECTS OF TASK-SPECIFIC WAYFINDING MAPS A representation-theoretic perspective (2007)
John S Gero, Barbara Tversky (eds, Christian Freksa
Abstract. Ways of guiding people from a given location to specific other locations are discussed. Different classes of wayfinding tasks are distinguished. Various parameters that influence the...
Improving the management of building life cycle : a data mining approach (2006)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The construction industry has adapted information technology in its processes in terms of computer aided design and drafting, construction documentation and maintenance. The data generated within the...
Improving the management of building life cycle : a data mining approach (2006)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The construction industry has adapted information technology in its processes in terms of computer aided design and drafting, construction documentation and maintenance. The data generated within the...
Improving the management of building life cycle : a data mining approach (2006)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The construction industry has adapted information technology in its processes in terms of computer aided design and drafting, construction documentation and maintenance. The data generated within the...
Improving the management of building life cycle : a data mining approach (2006)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The construction industry has adapted information technology in its processes in terms of computer aided design and drafting, construction documentation and maintenance. The data generated within the...
Using data mining to improve building life cycle (2004)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The building life cycle process is complex and prone to fragmentation as it moves through its various stages. The number of participants, and the diversity, specialisation and isolation both in space...
Automated code checking (2004)
Drogemuller, Robin, Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike A, Gero, John S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Studying collaborative design in high bandwidth virtual environments (2004)
Gero, John. S, Maher, Mary. Lou, Bilda, Zafer, Marchant, David, Namprempree, Kanyarat, Bagot , Woods, ...
In today’s global design world, architectural and other related design firms design across time zones and geographically distant locations. High bandwidth virtual environments have the potential to...
Automated code checking (2004)
Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike. A, Gero, John. S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Abstract. This paper describes a socio-cognitive framework to study the interaction between designers and social groups. Experimentation
Using data mining to improve building life cycle (2004)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The building life cycle process is complex and prone to fragmentation as it moves through its various stages. The number of participants, and the diversity, specialisation and isolation both in space...
Automated code checking (2004)
Drogemuller, Robin, Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike A, Gero, John S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Studying collaborative design in high bandwidth virtual environments (2004)
Gero, John. S, Maher, Mary. Lou, Bilda, Zafer, Marchant, David, Namprempree, Kanyarat, Bagot , Woods, ...
In today’s global design world, architectural and other related design firms design across time zones and geographically distant locations. High bandwidth virtual environments have the potential to...
Automated code checking (2004)
Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike. A, Gero, John. S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Automated code checking (2004)
Drogemuller, Robin, Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike A, Gero, John S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Studying collaborative design in high bandwidth virtual environments (2004)
Gero, John. S, Maher, Mary. Lou, Bilda, Zafer, Marchant, David, Namprempree, Kanyarat, Bagot , Woods, ...
In today’s global design world, architectural and other related design firms design across time zones and geographically distant locations. High bandwidth virtual environments have the potential to...
Using data mining to improve building life cycle (2004)
Reffat, Rabee M., Gero, John S., Peng, Wei
The building life cycle process is complex and prone to fragmentation as it moves through its various stages. The number of participants, and the diversity, specialisation and isolation both in space...
Automated code checking (2004)
Jupp, Julie, Rosenman, Mike. A, Gero, John. S
Most buildings constructed in Australia must comply with the Building Code of Australia (BCA). Checking for compliance against the BCA is a major task for both designers and building surveyors. This...
Social change: exploring design influence (2003)
Abstract. This paper explores some aspects of group divergence based on principles of design disciplines and social dissemination. Extensions to an elementary model are used to explore the...
The situated function-behaviour-structure framework (2002)
John S Gero, Udo Kannengiesser
Abstract. This paper extends the Function-Behaviour-Structure (FBS)
The structure of concurrent cognitive actions: A case study on novice and expert designers (2002)
This paper presents a case study of concurrent cognitive actions of a novice and an expert designer. We analyzed cognitive actions of designers using the retrospective protocol analysis method and...
Creative design situations: Artificial creativity (2002)
Abstract. This paper presents the outline of experiments with a behaviourbased computational model of creativity in design called Creative Design Situations. This model aims to allow the study of...
Designing for interest and novelty, motivating design agents (2001)
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the motivation of design agents to promote the exploration of design spaces. A general form of motivation common to designers is a curiosity to discover...
2001a, ‘A Curious Design Agent: A Computational Model of Novelty-Seeking Behaviour in Design (2001)
Abstract. This paper presents a “curious design agent”, i.e. an agent that uses the search for novel designs to guide its design actions. A computational model of curiosity based on a process...
The digital clockwork muse: A computational model of aesthetic evolution (2001)
This paper presents a computational model of creativity that attempts to capture within a social context an important aspect of the art and design process: the search for novelty. The computational...
Sketching as mental imagery processing (2001)
Abstract: Analysis of results of design protocols of novice and expert designers, although based on a limited number of designers, has shown that there are differences in the balance of cognitive...
Situated design interpretation using a configuration of actor capabilities (2001)
John S. Gero, Scott Chase, Mike Rosenman (eds, Gregory J Smith, S Gero
Abstract. A designer looking at a drawing sometimes notices things
Designing for interest and novelty, motivating design agents (2001)
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the motivation of design agents to promote the exploration of design spaces. A general form of motivation common to designers is a curiosity to discover...
2000, A situated approach to analogy in designing (2000)
Abstract. Reasoning by analogy, applied into designing, is investigated from the perspective of situated cognition. This cognitive paradigm emphasizes the importance of the environment in which a...
J.S.: Design families and design individuals (2000)
Abstract: This paper discusses design families and design individuals. Phase space is introduced to complement state space. Phase transition as a generic method of generating design families is...
Adaptive enlargement of state spaces in evolutionary designing (2000)
John S. Gero, Vladimir Kazakov, Key Centre, Design Computing
In designing a state space of possible designs is implied by the representation used and the computational processes that operate on that representation. GAs are a means of effectively searching that...
Concurrent and retrospective protocols and computeraided architectural design (1999)
Abstract. This paper presents the results of studying human designers using two forms of protocol analysis and examines the implications of the results on computer-aided architectural design systems....
Design development based on an analogy with developmental biology (1999)
Abstract. This paper introduces the commonality between diversity in the biological world and diversity in artifact design. It proposes a computational model of design development based on the...
Feature-based qualitative modelling of objects (1999)
Abstract: Objects represent fundamentally important ways with which to perceive and reason about the world. There are very few adequate representations for use at the early stages of designing....
Abstract. This paper describes some recent cognitively-based and computationally-based research on representing and reasoning about shapes. The cognitive studies are based on protocol analyses of...
Understanding conceptual electronic design using protocol analysis (1998)
Thomas Mc Neill, John S. Gero, James Warren
Many theories about the process of design have been derived from prescriptive or descriptive analysis. There have been few attempts to empirically test these theories. Protocol analysis facilitates...
Space layout planning using an evolutionary approach (1998)
This paper describes a design method based on constructing a genetic/evolutionarydesign model whose idea is borrowed from natural genetics. Two major issues from the modelling involve how to...
Object Representation and Reasoning Using Halfspaces and Logic (1998)
. Shapes and objects represent important ways with which to perceive and reason about the world. This paper develops a framework which uniformly encompasses both planar and non-planar surfaces to...
Conceptual Designing as a Sequence of Situated Acts (1998)
. This paper introduces conceptual designing within an F-B-S framework. It then goes on to describe a number of models of designing before introducing the notions of situatedness and situated acts....
From Mondrian to Frank Lloyd Wright: Transforming Evolving Representations (1998)
Thorsten Schnier John, John S Gero
: If a computer is to create designs with the goal of following a certain style it has to have information about this style. Unfortunately, the most often used method of formal representations of...
Adaptive Systems In Designing: New Analogies From Genetics And Developmental Biology (1998)
. This paper introduces the notion that analogies other than Darwinian evolution may be used as the bases for useful designing processes. Two classes of analogies are described: those drawn from...
Properties of shapes and shape patterns are investigated in order to represent shape pattern knowledge for supporting shape pattern recognition. It is based on the notion that shape patterns are...
Evolved Representations and Their Use in Computational Creativity (1998)
Thorsten Schnier, John S. Gero
ii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Goal of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Organization of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Background 4...
Concept formation in design (1998)
Abstract: This paper presents a computationally tractable view on where simple design concepts come from by proposing a paradigm for the formation of design concepts based on the emergence of...
Multiple Representations For Situated Agent-Based Learning (1997)
John S. Gero, Rabee M. Reffat, M. Reffat
. Designers interact with the world not as actors following preconceived plans but related to the situations encountered. Learning the situatedness of design knowledge is as important as learning...
A Symbolic Model for Graphical Emergence (1997)
This paper presents a shape representation at the symbolic level that extends the properties of shape in 2D and 3D using the same formalism. This representation is based on the concept of infinite...
A Genetic Programming Approach To The Space Layout Planning Problem (1997)
Romuald Jagielski, John S. Gero
. The space layout planning problem belongs to the class of NP-hard problems with a wide range of practical applications. Many algorithms have been developed in the past, however recently...
Emergent Shape Generation In Design Using The Boundary Contour System (1997)
This paper discusses the boundary contour system as the basis of a computational model of emergent recognition applicable in design. Details of this system which make it appealing as a computational...
Learning Emergent Style Using An Evolutionary Approach (1997)
. This paper presents an evolutionary approach to learning emergent style in architectural designs. Emergence is the process of making features explicit which were previously only implicit. Style is...
A Framework For Research In Design Computing (1997)
this paper we consider design computing as a research area, one in which the results of the research lead to more than additional computer programs and in fact lead to a better understanding of...
Evolving Design Genes in Space Layout Planning Problems (1997)
John S. Gero, Vladimir A. Kazakov
The space layout planning problem is one of the most difficult in architectural design. It is practically important in architectural design because it is the basis of the development of most designs....
Evolving Design Genes in Space Layout Planning Problems (1997)
John S. Gero, Vladimir A. Kazakov
The space layout planning problem is one of the most difficult in architectural design. It is practically important in architectural design because it is the basis of the development of most designs....
Sequence-Based Prediction In The Conceptual Design Of Bridges (1997)
This paper explores the application of a machine learning technique in knowledge support systems in civil engineering design. It presents a sequence-based prediction method for engineering design and...
Representation, Re-Representation And Emergence In Collaborative Computer-Aided Design (1997)
. Representation of drawings in CAD systems can cause problems during design collaboration. The notion of re-representation is proposed as one way of addressing these problems. Furthermore,...
An exploration-based evolutionary model of generative design process (1996)
John S. Gero, Vladimir A. Kazakov, Design Science
An exploration-based generatire model of design is proposed. Shape grammars are used as a framework for the lmowledge representation within this model. The routine design problem over the state space...
Evolving building blocks for design using genetic engineering: a formal approach (1996)
Abstract. This paper presents a formal approach to the evolution of a representation for use in a design process. The approach adopted is based on concepts associated with genetic engineering. An...
Learning Genetic Representations As Alternative To Handcoded Shape Grammars (1996)
Thorsten Schnier, JOHN S. GERO
. Shape grammars have been used to analyze and describe designs, and to create new designs that are similar in style to the designs the grammar is based on. The grammars are created by hand,...
Computers and Creative Design (1996)
. This paper introduces notions of creativity and creative design as a form of computational exploration. Exploration is used as a means of defining spaces which are then searched. It is shown that...
Design Tools That Learn: A Possible Cad Future (1996)
This paper describes the concept of tools that learn. These are design support tools that acquire problemspecific knowledge as they are used to solve a problem. This knowledge is then reused in the...
A Logic-based Framework for Shape Representation (1996)
Shapes represent a very important way with which we perceive and reason about the world. In this article we develop a logic-based framework to represent graphical shapes in two dimensions. Based on...
Learning representations for evolutionary computation (1995)
Thorsten Schnier, John S. Gero
Evolutionary systems have been used in a variety of applications, from turbine design to scheduling problems. The basic algorithms are similar in all these applications, but the representation is...
Improving Pareto Optimal Designs Using Genetic Algorithms (1995)
Pareto optimal designs are the best designs that can be produced for a given problem formulation for a given set of criteria when the criteria are not combined in any way. If the goal is to improve...
Evolving Building Blocks For Design Using Genetic Engineering: A Formal Approach (1995)
John S. Gero, Vladimir A. Kazakov
. This paper presents a formal approach to the evolution of a representation for use in a design process. The approach adopted is based on concepts associated with genetic engineering. An initial set...
Getting Computers to Read The Architectural Semantics of Drawings (1995)
. This paper presents an approach to the reading of the architectural semantics of drawings. Topological constraints on objects are used to represent various types of groups where the groups produce...
An Exploration-Based Evolutionary Model of a Generative Design Process. (1995)
John S. Gero, Vladimir A. Kazakov
An exploration-based generative model of design is proposed. Shape grammars are used as a framework for the knowledge representation within this model. The routine design problem over the state space...
Space Layout Planning using an Evolutionary Approach (1995)
This paper describes a design method based on constructing a genetic/evolutionarydesign model whose idea is borrowed from natural genetics. Two major issues from the modelling involve how to...
Learning Representations for Evolutionary Computation (1995)
Thorsten Schnier, John S. Gero
Evolutionary systems have been used in a variety of applications, from turbine design to scheduling problems. The basic algorithms are similar in all these applications, but the representation is...
Visual Semantics Emergence To Support Creative Designing: A Computational View (1995)
John S. Gero, Han J. Jun, J. Jun
. One computational model of creative design involves the introduction of new variables or schemas into the designing process. This paper describes and elaborates an approach where an emergence...
Evolving Representations Of Design Cases And Their Use In Creative Design (1995)
John S. Gero, Thorsten Schnier
. In case-based design, the adaptation of a design case to new design requirements plays an important role. If it is sufficient to adapt a predefined set of design parameters, the task is easily...
Evolutionary Learning of Novel Grammars for Design Improvement (1994)
John Gero Sushil, John S. Gero, Sushil J. Louis, Sourav Kundu
This paper focusses on that form of learning which relates to exploration, rather than generalization. It uses the notion of exploration as the modification of state spaces within which search and...
Evolutionary Learning of Novel Grammars for Design Improvement (1994)
John S. Gero, Sushil J. Louis, Sourav Kundu
This paper focusses on that form of learning which relates to exploration, rather than generalization. It uses the notion of exploration as the modification of state spaces within which search and...
Computational Models Of Creative Design Processes (1994)
Introduction Artificial intelligence has provided a rich set of concepts for design researchers to work with. It has extended and considerably elaborated ideas from the design methods movement and...
Synchronous support and emergence in collaborative CAAD (1993)
Mary Lou Maher, John S Gero, Milad Saad
Design is rarely an activity that is commenced and completed by an individual. The more common design environment is one in which teams of designers work together towards a final solution. In this...
Creativity, Emergence and Evolution in Design (1992)
. 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...
Expert Systems in Computer-Aided design / edited by John S. Gero (1987)
Proceedings of the IFIP WG 5.2 Working Conference on Expert Systems in Computer-Aided Design Sydney (Jenolan Australia, 17-20 february, 1987
Knowledge engineering in computer-aided design / edited by John S. Gero (1985)
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The emergence of the representation of style in design
In this paper we present an evolutionary approach to the emergence of the representation of style in design. We explore issues involved in the interpretation of style, the emergence of the...
Complexity measures as a basis for mass customization of novel designs
In this paper we present a computational approach to the integration of mass customization into the design of novel solutions. We propose the use of entropy as a function of the diversity of...