Integrated Platform for AI Support of Complex Design (Part I): Rapid Development of Schemes from First Principles

The engineering design process typically entails the construction of a description of an artefact that satisfies a formal (in most cases) functional specification, meets certain performance requirements and resource constraints; is realisable in a target technology; satisfies one or more criteria, for instance manufacturability, reliability, safety and testability; and, more recently, environmental friendliness. The common perception of engineering design is often taken as that of converting a need - expressed as an abstract concept in terms of general functionality - into a product fulfilling that need, and its process involving the mapping of a specified function onto a realisable physical structure - the designed product.