Thematic Collection on Design Computing and Cognition 2020
AIEDAM Special Issue, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2021
Guest Editors: Athanassios Economou & Yan Jin
This special issue of AIEDAM aims to present cutting edge, state-of-the-art research in design computing and cognition from DCC'20, the Ninth International Conference on Design Computing & Cognition (http://dccconferences.org/dcc20/).
Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from the more commonly associated fields of engineering, information technology and architecture, to emerging areas in the social sciences and life sciences. Design research aims to develop an understanding of designing and to produce models that can be used to aid designing.
Design research can be carried out in variety of ways. It can be viewed as largely an empirical endeavor in which experiments are designed and executed in order to test some hypothesis about some design phenomenon or design behavior. This is the approach adopted in cognitive science. The results of such research can form the basis of a computational model. A second view is that design research can be carried out by positing axioms and then deriving consequences from them. If the axioms can be mapped onto design situations, then the consequences should follow. This is the approach adopted in mathematics and logic and forms the basis of a small but powerful area in design research. A third view, and the most common one in the computational domain, is that design research can be carried out by conjecturing design processes, constructing computational models of those processes and then examining the behaviors of the resulting computational systems.
Topics in design computing and cognition include, but are not limited to:
Instructions for submissions
All DCC'20 contributors including plenary session paper, poster, and workshop authors are invited to submit significantly revised and extended papers, or completely new papers. Note that your conference papers must not be resubmitted unchanged as they are already covered by publisher's copyright. Submissions are not open to people who did not take part in the conference.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three expert reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the basis of these reviews.
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM papers, as well as about submission, can be found at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ai-edam/information/instructions-contributors
Note that all queries and information about submissions for special issues should be addressed to the Guest Editors, and not to the Editor in Chief. Please submit your paper through the ScholarOne system online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aie and select the "Design Computing and Cognition 2020" Thematic Collection option.
Important dates
| Submission deadline for full papers | May 14th 2021 |
| Notification & reviews due to authors | June 18th 2021 |
| Revised version submission deadline | July 9th 2021 |
| Second round of reviews due | July 30th 2021 |
| Final version due | August 15th 2021 |
| Issue Appears | Fall 2021 |
Guest editors:
Athanassios Economou, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Architecture, College of Design
Professor (Adjunct), School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing
Director, Shape Computation Lab
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Phone: +1 (404)510-0200
Email: economou@gatech.edu
Website: https://shape.gatech.edu
Yan Jin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
Director, IMPACT Lab
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453, USA
Phone: +1 (213)740-9574
Email: yjin@usc.edu
Website: http://impact1.usc.edu