CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of AI EDAM Journal on

GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION AND REASONING IN DESIGN

This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to the role of geometric representation and reasoning in computational models of design. Authors are invited to submit papers reporting original work on any computational design model and on any aspect of geometric information in such models. The editors especially seek papers which develop clear relations between geometric computation and a design model.

Without prejudging papers that authors may plan, the editors suggest that both representation and process can provide insight into the use of geometry in computing designs. Representations establish relations between concepts to be modelled and the symbol system that represents them. Process specifies the operations that are defined over a symbol system and the effects such operations have on the concepts being modelled.

Potential topics include:

• novel uses of geometry in design;
• novel representations of geometric information in design;
• novel processes of geometric information in design;
• generative models of geometry in design;
• emergence of spatial concepts in a design process;
• algebras of spatial representations;
• representations of and operations over parametric designs;
• adaptation of geometric schema;
• deduction of geometric relations implicit in a design;
• empirical studies of designer conceptions of geometry.

Papers are due 1 April 1996.

For further information and submission details, contact the editors:

   Jose Damski 
   Key Centre of Design Computing
   University of Sydney 
   Email: jose@arch.su.edu.au

   Robert Woodbury            
   Department of Architecture    
   University of Adelaide 
   Email: rw@arch.adelaide.edu.au

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