A functional representation for aiding biomimetic and artificial inspiration of new ideas
A functional representation for aiding biomimetic and artificial inspiration of new ideas
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DOI：
10.1017/s0890060405050109
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发表时间：
2005-03-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
Nataraju, BS
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作者：
Chakrabarti, A;Sarkar, P;Nataraju, BS
灵感对于探索和发现新的解决方案空间很有用。自然和人工世界中的系统及其功能被视为创意产生的丰富灵感来源。然而，与人工领域中现有系统经常被用来获取灵感不同，来自自然领域的系统很少以系统的方式用于此目的。类比长期以来被认为是激发新创意产生的有力手段。这里报道的工作的目的之一是在产品开发的系统仿生学领域启动类似的工作，以便可以系统地利用自然和人工世界的灵感来帮助开发新颖的、类比的想法来解决设计问题。用于表示自然和人工系统因果关系的通用模型已经开发出来，并用于构建两个领域的系统数据库中的信息。这些是在一个软件中实现的，用于从数据库中自动类比搜索相关想法来解决给定的问题。验证该软件的初步实验表明该方法具有巨大的潜力。
Inspiration is useful for exploration and discovery of new solution spaces. Systems in natural and artificial worlds and their functionality are seen as rich sources of inspiration for idea generation. However, unlike in the artificial domain where existing systems are often used for inspiration, those from the natural domain are rarely used in a systematic way for this purpose. Analogy is long regarded as a powerful means for inspiring novel idea generation. One aim of the work reported here is to initiate similar work in the area of systematic biomimetics for product development, so that inspiration from both natural and artificial worlds can be used systematically to help develop novel, analogical ideas for solving design problems. A generic model for representing causality of natural and artificial systems has been developed, and used to structure information in a database of systems from both the domains. These are implemented in a piece of software for automated analogical search of relevant ideas from the databases to solve a given problem. Preliminary experiments at validating the software indicate substantial potential for the approach.