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authors
Coyne, Richard D. and Gero, John S.
year
1986
title
Semantics and the Organisation of Knowledge in Design
source
Design Computing. 1986. vol. 1: pp. 68-89 : ill. includes bibliography
summary
The linguistic paradigm of design is considered. The idea of meta-languages is developed as a means of generating designs that are imbued with semantic content. The formulation of meta-languages therefore becomes a way of organizing knowledge about design. The usefulness of these ideas is demonstrated by means of programs developed in Prolog