Workshops on the Science of Design

本提案的目的是为组织两个关于设计科学的研讨会寻求支持。第一次讲习班将于2003年10月12日至14日举行。 它计划在弗吉尼亚州沃伦顿附近的艾尔利中心。 第二次讲习班将于2004年第一季度举行，也初步计划在艾尔利中心举行。 这些研讨会将支持国家科学基金会的计算机和信息科学与工程局（CISE）制定和建立设计科学的研究优先事项。 讲习班将根据各国关于编写该领域研究需要及其优先次序的立场文件的呼吁举办。在经过仔细挑选之后，将邀请一批不同的与会者参加每一次研讨会，根据应邀与会者的意见，完善和发展一个初步立场。每个研讨会的最终产品将是一份报告，将提供给国家科学基金会管理人员，以计划和协调他们的活动，广泛的研究界，并向公众。 第一次研讨会将主要利用围绕计算机通信研究（CCR）CISE部门组织的研究人员;第二次研讨会将利用整个CISE研究社区。设计科学在容纳规范性元素的科学中也许是独一无二的，因此有可能在传统的、纯粹描述性的自然科学和规范性的价值领域之间建立一座新的桥梁，而规范性的价值领域今天主要是人文、艺术和宗教等领域。 计算机和信息科学与工程的学科都需要和手段来表示规范驱动的设计，从设计工件的结构到创建它们的人类和组织过程的行为，最终从考虑明确表示的规范中获得适当的设计结构和过程。

ABSTRACT0346938Kevin SullivanU of VirginiaThe purpose of this proposal is to request support for the organization of two workshops on the Science of Design. The first workshop will be held October 12-14, 2003. It is planned for Airlie Center near Warrenton, Virginia. The second workshop will be held in the first quarter of 2004, and is also tentatively planned for Airlie Center. The workshops will support the National Science Foundation.s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) in formulating and establishing research priorities for a science of design. The workshops will be organized based on national calls for position papers on the formulation and prioritization of research needs of the field. After a careful selection process, a diverse group of participants will be invited to each workshop to refine and develop an initial position synthesized from the contributions of the invited participants. The final product of each workshop will be a report, which will be available to National Science Foundation managers to plan and coordinate their activities, to the broad research community, and to the public. The first workshop will draw largely on researchers organized around the CISE division of Computer-Communications Research (CCR); the second will draw on the entire CISE research community. Intellectual Merit The Science of Design is perhaps unique among sciences for accommodating normative elements, and thus has the potential to create a new bridge between traditional, purely descriptive natural sciences and the normative realm of value that is today largely the domain of fields such as humanities, the arts, and religion. The disciplines of computer and information science and engineering have both the need and the means to represent norm-driven design, from the structures of designed artifacts to the behaviors of the human and organizational processes that create them.ultimately to derive appropriate design structures and processes from the consideration of explicitly represented norms.