Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by using Visual Metaphors

Peter Hale, Rob Marsh, Christophe Bru, John Lanham

peter2.hale@uwe.ac.uk, Robert.Marsh@uwe.ac.uk, Christophe2.Bru@uwe.ac.uk, John.Lanham@uwe.ac.uk

Preprint for Journal of Design Research Web

Journal Special Issue "Fostering Innovation during Early Informal Design Phases"

http://jdr.tudelft.nl/

12 January 2006


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Table of Contents

Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by using Visual Metaphors

SEEDS Team Information

Early Approach

Aerospace Composite Costing System

Problems with this approach

Alternative Approach

Automated Generation of Modelling Programs

Translation

Ontology Editing and Translation

Translation Example

Translation Implementation

Translation Tree

Visualisation - Cost Tree

Web Output Visualisation

Web Output Visualisation 2

Interactive Visualisation

Java Translation

Web Searching

Web Searching - Searches Hierarchy

Web Searching - Ontology Viewing

Future Work - Extended Semantic information

Findings from using the alternative approach

Conclusions

Authors: Peter Hale, Rob Marsh, Christophe Bru, John Lanham

Email: peter2.hale@uwe.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/



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