During the life cycle of a product, engineers and designers make many
representations of the product. The information and knowledge added to
create and maintain the product -- in other words the "corporate
memory" -- are usually represented visually in sketches, models,
(technical) drawings, and images. These representations have proved to
be of value in computer aided support and have received a lot of
attention in both research and practice.
However, in the corporate memory a lot of linguistic information is
involved as well. Captions, plain text and keyword indexing are now
common to support the communication between design actors. But the
linguistic information is currently scarcely used to its full
potential. Thus far linguistic information has not significantly
contributed to improve the information handling related to the
computer support of the (design) product.
In this special issue we seek contributions concerning the added value
and the means of applying linguistic information during the life cycle
of a product. This can, for example, involve the differences in
interpretation of information and how that should be handled during
the life cycle of the product, or the complexity of relating different
representations -- in the early phase of the design, process ambiguity
and parallel lines of thought are required, while in a later phase the
information has to be precise.
In our view, linguistic information is the use of words,
abbreviations, vocal comments, annotations, notes and reports, which
create meaningful information for designers as well as computers.
This linguistic information is complementary to visual information and
essential to create the product.s corporate memory in a smart
way. Semantic models, use of ontology, multimodal representations,
connectivity through linguistic content, and flexible information
handling, must contribute to render the corporate memory truly
intelligible for AI systems.
Topics that may be addressed include:
- integration of visual and linguistic information;
- emerging issues of integrated design support;
- narrative human computer interaction;
- user interface research;
- word-based conceptual design;
- design process buffers / information collectors;
- ontology and semantics in corporate memory;
- accelerating innovation in product design;
- translation between experts / users / clients / engineers /
designers;
- interpretation and connection between different design
representations;
- constraint management in collaborative design.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two expert
reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the basis of these
reviews.
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:
Intent to submit
(title & abstract, 400-800 words): 7 March 2006
Submission deadline for full papers: 22 March 2006 ***
Reviews due 11 July 2006
Notification and reviews to authors: 25 July 2006
Revised version submission deadline: 19 September 2006
Final papers: 11 November 2006
Publication: Spring 2007
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editors:
Nicole Segers
De Twee Snoeken Automatisering
Postbus 659
5201 AR 's-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
Email: nicole.segers @ tweesnoeken.nl
Pierre Leclercq
University of Liege
LuciD Group
1 chemin des Chevreuils B52
B4000 Liege - Belgium
Email: pierre.leclercq @ ulg.ac.be
