Hideaki Takeda's Publication
- M. Takaai, H. Takeda and T. Nishida: A designer
support environment for cooperative design, Systems and Computers in
Japan, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 32–39 (1999).
The designer proceeds with his work by collecting and combining
knowledge about the design object; in so doing, the knowledge possessed by
the designer is organized and extended. In cooperative design performed by
multiple persons, this organized knowledge is shared among them. This study
proposes a designer support environment in which design knowledge is
organized by using conceptual systems (ontologies) in the special fields
related to the design object. The proposed environment includes workspaces to
store individual knowledge and software agents that perform knowledge
organization procedures within their own workspaces or across different
workspaces, thus supporting the collection, organization, and processing of
design knowledge, as well as cooperative design. In addition, the prototype
Designers Amplifier system is described, and experimental results obtained
with the prototype system in the case of a bicycle rack design are presented.
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics)