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Retrieval Augmented Generation using Engineering Design Knowledge
L. Siddharth, Jianxi Luo
Aiming to support Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in the design process, we present a method to identify explicit, engineering design facts - {head entity :: relationship :: t…
The Innovation Paradox: Concept Space Expansion with Diminishing Originality and the Promise of Creative AI
Serhad Sarica, Jianxi Luo
Innovation, typically spurred by reusing, recombining, and synthesizing existing concepts, is expected to result in an exponential growth of the concept space over time. However, o…
Toward Artificial Empathy for Human-Centered Design: A Framework
Qihao Zhu, Jianxi Luo
In the early stages of the design process, designers explore opportunities by discovering unmet needs and developing innovative concepts as potential solutions. From a human-center…
Biologically Inspired Design Concept Generation Using Generative Pre-Trained Transformers
Qihao Zhu, Xinyu Zhang, Jianxi Luo
Biological systems in nature have evolved for millions of years to adapt and survive the environment. Many features they developed can be inspirational and beneficial for solving t…
Embedding Knowledge Graph of Patent Metadata to Measure Knowledge Proximity
Guangtong Li, L Siddharth, Jianxi Luo
Knowledge proximity refers to the strength of association between any two entities in a structural form that embodies certain aspects of a knowledge base. In this work, we operatio…
Generative Transformers for Design Concept Generation
Qihao Zhu, Jianxi Luo
Generating novel and useful concepts is essential during the early design stage to explore a large variety of design opportunities, which usually requires advanced design thinking…
Enhancing Patent Retrieval using Text and Knowledge Graph Embeddings: A Technical Note
L Siddharth, Guangtong Li, Jianxi Luo
Patent retrieval influences several applications within engineering design research, education, and practice as well as applications that concern innovation, intellectual property,…
Design Representation as Semantic Networks
Serhad Sarica, Ji Han, Jianxi Luo
Design representation is a common task in the design process to facilitate learning, analysis, redesign, communication, and other design activities. Traditional representation tech…
Guiding Data-Driven Design Ideation by Knowledge Distance
Jianxi Luo, Serhad Sarica, Kristin Wood
Data-driven conceptual design methods and tools aim to inspire human ideation for new design concepts by providing external inspirational stimuli. In prior studies, the stimuli hav…
Intelligent Amphibious Ground-Aerial Vehicles: State of the Art Technology for Future Transportation
Xinyu Zhang, Jiangeng Huang, Yuanhao Huang +7
Amphibious ground-aerial vehicles fuse flying and driving modes to enable more flexible air-land mobility and have received growing attention recently. By analyzing the existing am…
Generative Pre-Trained Transformers for Biologically Inspired Design
Qihao Zhu, Xinyu Zhang, Jianxi Luo
Biological systems in nature have evolved for millions of years to adapt and survive the environment. Many features they developed can be inspirational and beneficial for solving t…
Generative Design Ideation: A Natural Language Generation Approach
Qihao Zhu, Jianxi Luo
This paper aims to explore a generative approach for knowledge-based design ideation by applying the latest pre-trained language models in artificial intelligence (AI). Specificall…
Data-Driven Innovation: What Is It
Jianxi Luo
The future of innovation processes is anticipated to be more data-driven and empowered by the ubiquitous digitalization, increasing data accessibility and rapid advances in machine…
Generative Pre-Trained Transformer for Design Concept Generation: An Exploration
Qihao Zhu, Jianxi Luo
Novel concepts are essential for design innovation and can be generated with the aid of data stimuli and computers. However, current generative design algorithms focus on diagramma…
Natural Language Processing in-and-for Design Research
L Siddharth, Lucienne T. M. Blessing, Jianxi Luo
We review the scholarly contributions that utilise Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to support the design process. Using a heuristic approach, we gathered 223 articles…
Patent Data for Engineering Design: A Critical Review and Future Directions
Shuo Jiang, Serhad Sarica, Binyang Song +2
Patent data have long been used for engineering design research because of its large and expanding size, and widely varying massive amount of design information contained in patent…
Technology Fitness Landscape for Design Innovation: A Deep Neural Embedding Approach Based on Patent Data
Shuo Jiang, Jianxi Luo
Technology is essential to innovation and economic prosperity. Understanding technological changes can guide innovators to find new directions of design innovation and thus make br…
Engineering Knowledge Graph from Patent Database
L Siddharth, Lucienne T. M. Blessing, Kristin L. Wood +1
We propose a large, scalable engineering knowledge graph, comprising sets of (entity, relationship, entity) triples that are real-world engineering facts found in the patent databa…
Data-Driven Design-by-Analogy: State of the Art and Future Directions
Shuo Jiang, Jie Hu, Kristin L. Wood +1
Design-by-Analogy (DbA) is a design methodology wherein new solutions, opportunities or designs are generated in a target domain based on inspiration drawn from a source domain; it…
Deep Learning for Technical Document Classification
Shuo Jiang, Jie Hu, Christopher L. Magee +1
In large technology companies, the requirements for managing and organizing technical documents created by engineers and managers have increased dramatically in recent years, which…
Design Knowledge Representation with Technology Semantic Network
Serhad Sarica, Jianxi Luo
Engineers often need to discover and learn designs from unfamiliar domains for inspiration or other particular uses. However, the complexity of the technical design descriptions an…
Semantic Networks for Engineering Design: A Survey
Ji Han, Serhad Sarica, Feng Shi +1
There have been growing uses of semantic networks in the past decade, such as leveraging large-scale pre-trained graph knowledge databases for various natural language processing (…
Crowdfunding for Design Innovation: Prediction Model with Critical Factors
Chaoyang Song, Jianxi Luo, Katja Hölttä-Otto +2
Online reward-based crowdfunding campaigns have emerged as an innovative approach for validating demands, discovering early adopters, and seeking learning and feedback in the desig…
Stopwords in Technical Language Processing
Serhad Sarica, Jianxi Luo
There are increasingly applications of natural language processing techniques for information retrieval, indexing and topic modelling in the engineering contexts. A standard compon…