1 Configuration Design -- A system for supporting design configuration -- Domain-independent design system: environment for rapid development of configuration-design systems -- Functional reasoning in configurational design -- Automated configuration design of hydraulic systems -- 2 Constraint Processes in Design -- Supporting multiple perspectives: a constraint-based approach to concurrent engineering -- Constraint satisfaction as a planning process -- A large scale, multiple constraint network system for design for testability for printed wiring boards -- 3 Cooperative Design -- Modeling heterogeneous engineering knowledge as transactions between delegating objects -- Multiple agent cooperative design evaluation using negotiation -- Building modeling based on concepts of autonomy -- 4 Design Object Modeling -- Representing design objects in SORAC: a data model with semantic objects, relationships and constraints -- SHOOD: a design object model -- Basic structure of a building model for representing and using knowledge of buildings in CAAD systems -- 5 Shape Design -- Two-dimensional structural component shape improvement via classifier system -- Grammars of features in design -- An improved shape annealing algorithm for optimally directed shape generation -- 6 Integrated Design Environments -- The integrated design framework: supporting the design process using a Black Board system -- IIDE: an integrated intelligent design environment for automation in design process and management -- KASE: an integrated environment for software design -- 7 Design Rationale -- DRCS: an integrated system for capture of designs and their rationale -- Toward a knowledge medium for collaborative product development -- Enduring support: on defeasible reasoning in design support systems -- 8 Case-Based Reasoning in Design- -- AskJef: integration of case-based reasoning and multimedia technologies for interface design support -- DEJAVU: a case-based reasoning designer's assistant shell -- A case-based design aid for architecture -- 9 Case-Based Reasoning in Design- -- A model-based approach to blame-assignment in design -- A study on structural optimum design based on qualitative sensitivities -- Adaptation of spatial design cases -- 10 Design Analysis -- An intelligent modelling assistant for preliminary analysis in design -- Design verification through function- and behavior-oriented representations: bridging the gap between function and behavior -- Issues in incremental analysis of assemblies for concurrent design -- 11 Architectures for Design Knowledge -- Structuring design knowledge on the basis of generic components -- PROBER-A design system based on design prototypes -- Explicit representation of design process knowledge -- 12 Learning in Design -- Machine learning techniques in optimal design -- Incremental learning for improved decision support in knowledge based design systems -- Application of a neural network to simulate analysis in an optimization process -- 13 Conceptual Design -- A computational model for conceptual design based on function logic -- Using network-based prototypes to support creative design by mutation and analogy -- A design support system using analogy -- 14 Design Processes -- Hierarchical generate-and-test vs constraint-directed search: a comparison in the context of layout synthesis -- Opportunistic and goal-oriented behaviour in software design: combining empirical and theoretical studies in cognitive modelling -- On the relevance and treatment of categories in AI and design -- Heuristic decision support problems: integrating heuristic search and expert systems for the design of continuous-manufacturing products -- 2+3 model: fractal processes for knowledge-based engineering design -- Author index -- Author electronic addresses.