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Special Issue: Representing functionality in design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Amaresh Chakrabarti  and
Lucienne Blessing
Amaresh Chakrabarti
Affiliation:
Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
Lucienne Blessing
Affiliation:
Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
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As designs exist to satisfy some purpose or function, knowledge of functionality is essential in a wide variety of designrelated activities, including generation and modification of designs, comparison, evaluation and selection of designs, and explanation, diagnosis or repair of designs. Functional modelling refers to a wide variety of approaches to model a design and its requirements from its functional aspects so as to allow reasoning about its functionality for various activities such as the above.

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Guest Editorial
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AI EDAM , Volume 10 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Representing functionality in design , September 1996 , pp. 251 - 253
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996