SAPPhIRE: A multistep representation for abductive reasoning in design synthesis

Bhatt, AN and Chakrabarti, A (2022) SAPPhIRE: A multistep representation for abductive reasoning in design synthesis. [Book Chapter]

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Abstract

Literature suggests that people typically understand knowledge by in-duction and produce knowledge by synthesis. This paper revisits ab-duction, a mode of reasoning that has been explored by several re-searchers as a crucial mode of reasoning underlying design synthesis. Our paper expands earlier work on abduction by proposing a more de-tailed model for abduction based on the seven elementary constructs of the SAPPhIRE model of causality. We argue that this model provides a more comprehensive understanding of abductive reasoning than those proposed by earlier authors. Explanations of abduction in design using the proposed model of abductive reasoning have been compared with those using existing models of abduction; the comparisons indicate the proposed model to be a more extensive model of abduction for design synthesis. Further, the model has been used to explain the empirical findings on abduction from the literature, lending support to the claim of its explanatory capacity. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Publication:	Design Computing and Cognition'20
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Springer International Publishing.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Department of Design & Manufacturing (formerly Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing)
Date Deposited:	24 Dec 2024 09:40
Last Modified:	24 Dec 2024 09:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85945

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