CALL FOR PAPERS: AI EDAM SPECIAL ISSUE, FALL 2009, VOL. 23, NO. 4 DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION

摘要

This Special Issue of AIEDAM will present cutting edge, state-of-the-art research in design computing and cognition from participants in DCC'08, the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from the more commonly associated fields of engineering, information technology, and architecture to emerging areas in the social sciences and life sciences. Design research is aimed at developing an understanding of designing and producing models that can be used to aid designing. Design research can be carried out in variety of ways. In the first, it can be viewed as largely an empirical endeavor in which experiments are designed and executed in order to test a hypothesis about some design phenomenon or design behavior. This is the approach adopted in cognitive science. The results of such research can form the basis of a computational model. A second view is that design research can be carried out by positing axioms and then deriving consequences from them.