Design Languages in the Design Space: Silicon Valley

1987 ◽

Author(s):

K. Ulrich ◽

W. Seering

Keyword(s):

Computational Complexity ◽

Conceptual Design ◽

Design Space ◽

Effective Means ◽

Trade Off ◽

Computer Tools ◽

Initial Stage ◽

Design Languages ◽

Structural Descriptions ◽

Future Work

Abstract Conceptual design is the initial stage of the transformation between functional and structural descriptions of devices. Our primary aim is to develop ideas that will allow computer tools for conceptual design to be built. In this paper, we point out a fundamental trade-off between the expressiveness of design languages and the computational complexity of the resulting design problem. Research in computational conceptual design can therefore be viewed as the problem of defining a design language and then devising ways of controlling the size of the resulting design space. We propose that an effective means of controlling complexity is to use knowledge of existing designs to guide the synthesis of novel designs. We illustrate this concept with a program that designs novel mechanical fasteners from knowledge of existing fasteners. We analyze this experiment and highlight several areas for future work.

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Gaining system design knowledge by systematic design space exploration with graph based design languages

10.1063/1.4897755 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jens Schmidt ◽

Stephan Rudolph

Keyword(s):

System Design ◽

Design Space Exploration ◽

Design Space ◽

Space Exploration ◽

Design Knowledge ◽

Systematic Design ◽

Design Languages

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Silicon Valley Mid-Summer Emergency: Santa Clara Addresses the Peak-Demand Repair of a 96-Inch Pipeline

Pipelines 2016 ◽

10.1061/9780784479957.168 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Nardini ◽

Rasko Ojdrovic ◽

Anna Pridmore

Keyword(s):

Silicon Valley ◽

Peak Demand

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Book Reviews

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v7i1.185 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 115-122

Author(s):

Book Reviews

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Material Culture ◽

Mexican Immigrants ◽

Silicon Valley ◽

Harvard University ◽

University Of California ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Missing Link ◽

Transit Migration

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp. Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.

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