Artificial Intelligence
Recording the reasons for design decisions
ICSE '88 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software engineering
gIBIS: a hypertext tool for exploratory policy discussion
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Computer-supported discussion and annotations
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Argumentation-based design rationale: what use at what cost?
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Representing Design Dependencies in an Issue-Based Style
IEEE Software
Representing design information and safety constraints
IEA/AIE'93 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems
A representation of engineering design intent
IEA/AIE'93 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems
Qualitative analysis of process plant behaviour
IEA/AIE'93 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems
CSCWD'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design I
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This paper addresses the problem of representing design history. Inparticular we describe a design information system that capturesthree different aspects of design history: exploration of designalternatives, reasons for design decisions and design constraints.These three aspects of design history are basically different and itis appropriate to represent them in different ways. An integrateddesign information system (IDIS) which supports the representation of these different aspects of design history is presented. Three casestudies which have been used to test the system at various stagesduring its development are presented. One of the components of thesystem, which uses the issue based representation, was tested usingan example from process engineering. The example helped us toidentify some of the strengths and weaknesses of that component. Thisevaluation also enabled us to formulate the principle of preservingtemporal integrity. A case study is also presented which tested theability of the system to retrospectively represent design informationthat is currently recorded in a design project. This case study alsohighlighted some of the problems with existing design documentationprocedures. In the final case study the system was used off-line torecord design information as it was generated. These case studiesfound that the system could represent the required information andprovided a methodology and semi-formal representation that helpedthe designers. Due to the success of these trials the system is nowbeing used by a team of researchers in an industrial setting toprovide the next level of testing.