Structure, behavior, and function of complex systems: The structure, behavior, and function modeling language

By Ashok K. Goel, S. Rugaber, Swaroop Vattam. Artificial intelligence for engineering design, analysis and manufacturing, 2008

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Abstract Teleological modeling is fundamental to understanding and explaining many complex systems, especially engineered systems. Research on engineering design and problem solving has developed several ontologies for expressing teleology, for example, functional representation, function–behavior–structure, and structure–behavior–function (SBF). In this paper, we view SBF as a programming language. SBF models of engineering systems have been used in several computer programs for automated design and problem solving. The SBF language captures the expressive power of the earlier programs and provides a basis for interactive construction of SBF models. We provide a precise specification of the SBF language. We also describe an interactive model construction tool called SBFAuthor.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering

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• A methodology for the generation of biomimetic design concepts (2015, methodology): “G4 analyses the information under the structure– behaviour–function schema (Goel, Rugaber, and Vattam 2009), G1 classifies the information under the biomimicry taxonomy and the function-oriented database (Baumeister 2012), Gamage and Hyde (2012) identify the inter-relations of ecosystem, process,…”