In the past two decades, there has been increasing use of semantic networks in engineering
design for supporting various activities, such as knowledge extraction, prior art search, idea …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

The growing developments in general semantic networks, knowledge graphs and ontology
databases have motivated us to build a large-scale comprehensive semantic network of …

With the advent of the big-data era, massive information stored in electronic and digital forms
on the internet become valuable resources for knowledge discovery in engineering design …

Designers are usually facing a problem of finding information from a huge amount of
unstructured textual documents in order to prepare for a decision to be made. The major …

Analogy is a core cognition process used to produce inferences as well as new ideas using
previous knowledge and experience. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of domain …

With the rapid popularity of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, BIM resources
such as building product libraries are growing rapidly on the World Wide Web. As a result …

Rapid growth of building components in the BIM object database increases the difficulty of
the efficient query of components that users require. Retrieval technology such as Autodesk …

The design of complex engineered systems highly relies on a laborious zigzagging between
computer-aided design (CAD) software and design rules prescribed by design manuals …

Practicing design engineers often have certain knowledge about a design problem.
However, in the last decades, the design optimization community largely treats design …