AI EDAM Special Issue, November 2011, Vol. 25, No. 4 Representing and Reasoning About Three-Dimensional Space

摘要

This Special Issue will survey the range of approaches to representing and reasoning about three-dimensional (3-D) space. We seek practice-based contributions in spatial design domains such as architecture, urban planning, and mechanical design; theoretical contributions, for example, from cognitive modeling; and technical approaches to the representation of space from computer-aided design (CAD)/manufacturing, computer-aided architectural design, and computer-aided engineering. Our intent is to provide common ground across this variety of disciplines and focus the discussion on specific factors that support a wide variety of design and engineering problem domains, so that representations and approaches can be usefully compared.rnThe way 3-D space is represented and understood is fundamental to all design. In architecture and urban design, space is the product of design. In the engineering of smaller artifacts, it is the context in which their parts relate to one another. In manufacturing, it is the environment in which control systems must operate physical processes.