Architects use sketching and diagramming in their design process to perform functional reasoning, formal arrangements, analogy transfer, structure mapping, and knowledge acquisiti...
Abstract Formal topology is today an established topic in the development of constructive mathematics and constructive proofs for many classical results of general topology have be...
Abstract. We develop a general setting for the treatment of extensions of categories by means of freely adjoined morphisms. To this end, we study what we call composition graphs, i...
Enterprise design knowledge is currently descriptive, ad hoc, or pre-scientific. One reason for this state of affairs in enterprise design is that existing approaches lack an adeq...
: This paper discusses design families and design individuals. Phase space is introduced to complement state space. Phase transition as a generic method of generating design famili...