The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial

This chapter contains sections titled: The Logic of Design: Fixed Alternatives, Paradoxes of Imperative Logic, Reduction to Declarative Logic, Computing the Optimum, Finding Satisfactory Actions, The Logic of Design: Finding Alternatives, Means-Ends Analysis, The Logic of Search, Design as Resource Allocation, An Example from Highway Design, Schemes for Guiding Search, The Shape of the Design: Hierarchy, The Generator-Test Cycle, Process as a Determinant of Style, Representation of the Design, Problem Solving as Change in Representation, Spatial Representation, The Taxonomy of Representation, Summary—Topics in The Theory of Design, Role of Design in the Life of the Mind