TY - JOUR
T1 - The interdisciplinary engineering knowledge genome
AU - Reich, Yoram
AU - Shai, Offer
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was partially funded by the Fleischman Foundation.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Parallel to the concept of the human genome and its impact on biology and other disciplines, we revealed a similar concept in engineering sciences, termed the "Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge Genome", which is an organized collection of system and method "genes" that encode instructions for generating new systems and methods in diverse engineering disciplines. Resting on the firm mathematical foundation of combinatorial representations, the Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge Genome unifies many engineering disciplines, providing a basis for transforming knowledge between them, supporting new educational practices, promoting inventions, aiding design, and bootstrapping new discoveries in engineering and science. Given the formal underlying combinatorial representations, these merits could be automated. This paper elucidates this new concept and demonstrates its value and power in engineering design.
AB - Parallel to the concept of the human genome and its impact on biology and other disciplines, we revealed a similar concept in engineering sciences, termed the "Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge Genome", which is an organized collection of system and method "genes" that encode instructions for generating new systems and methods in diverse engineering disciplines. Resting on the firm mathematical foundation of combinatorial representations, the Interdisciplinary Engineering Knowledge Genome unifies many engineering disciplines, providing a basis for transforming knowledge between them, supporting new educational practices, promoting inventions, aiding design, and bootstrapping new discoveries in engineering and science. Given the formal underlying combinatorial representations, these merits could be automated. This paper elucidates this new concept and demonstrates its value and power in engineering design.
KW - Biomimicry
KW - Human genome
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Knowledge representation
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U2 - 10.1007/s00163-012-0129-x
DO - 10.1007/s00163-012-0129-x
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AN - SCOPUS:84865601993
SN - 0934-9839
VL - 23
SP - 251
EP - 264
JO - Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering
JF - Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering
IS - 3
ER -