Career Advancement Award: Dynamic Design Specification with Chunking

本项目关注的是非正式设计规范中固有的问题。它的任务是开发一个独立于领域的、基于通用知识的设计需求获取工具DDSC（Dynamic Design Specification with Chunking）。捕获设计需求通常是知识工程师的任务，并且通常通过事后知识获取来完成，这通常是不充分和困难的。然而，在这种方法中，设计规格是一个动态的过程中相互演变。启发过程是基于人类认知的结构，通过使用公认的认知范畴。DDSC输入一个初始的，非正式的需求规格的设计对象，以及扩展的通用本体的设计过程，并生成一个完整的，明确的，一致的，和可实现的需求规格所需的设计对象。它通过在设计过程中与设计者和用户代理进行交互来实现这一点。在此过程中，在Chunking Agent的帮助下，n个需求被分成可实现的部分。 DDSC是一种参与式设计工具，不同于任何现有的通用工具。它的应用将大大有助于缩小非正式规格说明和设计实现之间存在的巨大差距。

This project is concerned with problems inherent in the informal specification of design. Its task is to develop a domain independent, generic knowledge-based requirement elicitation tool for design, called DDSC (Dynamic Design Specification with Chunking). Capturing design requirements is usually the task of knowledge engineers and is often done by post hoc knowledge acquisition, which in general is inadequate and difficult. In this approach however, design specification is a dynamic process evolving interactively. The elicitation process is based on the structure of human cognition through the use of recognized cognitive categories. DDSC takes as input an initial, informal requirement specification for a design object, as well as an extended generic ontology of the design process, and generates a complete, unambiguous, consistent, and implementable requirement specification of the desired design object. It does so by ewalkingn the Designer and the User Agents through the design process. During this ewalk-through,n requirements are chunked down with the help of Chunking Agents into implementable bits. DDSC is a participatory design tool which differs from any existing generic tool. Its application will greatly contribute to minimizing the huge gap which exists between informal specification and design implementation.