Hideaki Takeda's Publication
- T. Tomiyama, H. Takeda, M. Yoshioka and
Y. Shimomura: Abduction for Creative Design, in Proceedings of Design
Theory and Methodology - DTM'03 -The American Society for Mechanical
Engineering (ASME) (2003), (CDROM).
(Paper)
While abduction is considered crucial for design in general, this
paper focuses on the role of abduction to integrate knowledge assuming that
creative design can come from innovative combination of existing knowledge.
Based on SchurzGs classification of abductive reasoning, the paper identifies
that abduction for integrating theories can be performed by a special type of
abduction called second order existential abduction. The paper then analyzes
refrigerator design cases to understand how knowledge is used and shows that
abduction is indeed central to design. It also discusses that knowledge
structure is a key concept in abduction for integration.
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics)