...Shuo Jiang; Jie Hu; Kristin L. Wood; Jianxi Luo Design-by-analogy (DbA) is a design methodology wherein new solutions, opportunities, or designs are generated in a target domain based on inspiration drawn from a source domain; it can benefit designers in mitigating design fixation and improving...

... in patent documents. Growing work on design-by-analogy has adopted various vectorization approaches for associating design documents. However, they only focused on text analysis and ignored visual information. Research in engineering design and cognitive psychology has shown that visual stimuli may benefit...

... • Unsilo (formerly BioQL) Among computational analogy tools, a major theme has been the use of specialized modeling frameworks for describing systems and phenomena. Modern examples include the IDEA-INSPIRE tool, built around the SAPPhIRE causal modeling framework [ 37 ], the design by analogy...

...-by-analogy. In this paper, a quantitative metric for design-by-analogy is developed. This metric is based on the functional similarity of products. By using this product-similarity metric, designers are able to formalize and quantify design-by-analogy techniques during concept and layout design. The methods...