This special issue of
AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned with
Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style.
Design of all disciplines involves the resolution of both form and
function. Many design artifacts exhibit visible qualities and features
that we call 'style'. While we can often recognize a style easily, it
can be difficult to define exactly what elements of the design
contribute to the style. Artifacts often don't have only a single
style, but display the style of an area, a convention of practice, a
manufacturer, a designer and even a particular customer. We think of
style as being persistent over a series of objects and recognize it
through the similarity of these artifacts. Style is a relationship
between objects, but it influences how objects are understood and used:
i.e., relationships between objects and people.
Cultural and art historians, as well as design theoreticians, have
studied style from their different disciplinary perspectives. However,
we know little that is detailed and concrete about how style is
generated, deployed or appreciated. This understanding is necessary
for incorporating style into intelligent computer applications. In
this special issue we are seeking to put together contributions that
allow us to understand what style is, how it works, how it can be
supported and how it can be regenerated.
Specifically, we are asking the following questions:
What constitutes a style? What are the mechanisms through which style
is generated, shared and appreciated? What does style in different
disciplines have in common? Are rules and constraints part of the
definition of style? Can the practices used to analyze and generate
style in one design domain be applicable in a different field? Can we
use systematic approaches and methodologies to describe, understand
and generate style? What kinds of AI techniques are needed to
represent and reason about a style? Can styles be defined in
functional terms as well as structural terms? How is style recognized
and how does the notion of style influence the process and production
of design artifacts? What is the relationship between style and
context? Can a description of style be created automatically from one
or a set of artifacts? Where do the personal influences on style and
style perception come from? How important is style compared to other
attributes of a product as a success factor? What is the function of
style? Is style a meaningful concept beyond the visual domains?
What kind of computational tools have been built to support
engineering design, analysis and manufacturing concerning style?
We are interested in how this understanding of style can enhance the
design, analysis or manufacturing of engineering artifacts.
We particularly welcome papers on the topics listed below from all
areas of design:
- cognitive and computational approaches to understanding design style;
- computational tools that interpret styles, and infer design intentions;
- generative design systems that represent or reason about style;
- theories and procedures to analyze or generate style for design artifacts;
- representation methods for helping human designers understand the
nature of style;
- reasoning mechanisms for generating style in engineering design and
manufacturing.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three
reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the basis of
these reviews.
Further details about registration of
interest, submission, etc, can be found at the Special Issue
information page: code.arc.cmu.edu/~ellendo/aiedam/
Information about the format and style required for
AIEDAM papers can be found at
www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all
submissions for special issues go to the Guest Editors, and not to the
Editor in Chief.
Important dates:
Intend to submit (with Title): As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 1 July 2005 ***
Reviews due: 16 September 2005
Notification and reviews to authors: 9 October 2005
Revised version submission deadline: 1 December 2005
Final version submission deadline: 7 March 2006
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editors:
Dr. Claudia M. Eckert
The University of Cambridge,
Department of Engineering,
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: cme26 @ cam.ac.uk
Dr. Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Computational Design Laboratory
CoDe Lab, School of Architecture
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave, 412 Margaret Morrison Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 - 3890
USA
Email: ellendo @ cmu.edu
