Reuse of designs: Desperately seeking an interdisciplinary cognitive approach

This text analyses the papers accepted for the workshop "Reuse of designs: an interdisciplinary cognitive approach" (Visser, 1993). Several dimensions and questions considered as important (by the authors and/or by us) are addressed: What about the "interdisciplinary cognitive" character of the approaches adopted by the authors? Is design indeed a domain where the use of CBR is particularly suitable? Are there important distinctions between CBR and other approaches? Which types of knowledge -other than cases- is being, or might be, used in CBR systems? With respect to cases: are there different "types" of case and different types of case use? which formats are adopted for their representation? do cases have "components"? how are cases organised in the case memory? Concerning their retrieval: which types of index are used? on which types of relation is retrieval based? how does one retrieve only a selected number of cases, i.e., how does one inria...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Willemien Visser, Brigitte Trousse
• Keywords: CORR 2006, Designs, Education, Interdisciplinary Cognitive Approach, Several Dimensions