A User-Oriented Design Knowledge Reuse Model

Table 3

Design knowledge reuse patterns.

Reuse pattern	Knowledge types	Requirement
Guiding	Linguistic; Pictorial	Integrate innovation methodology with design environment, provide the unified user interface to guide the designer
Reference	Linguistic; Pictorial; Symbolic	Supply task-related knowledge and tools for design knowledge navigation
Automation	Virtual; Algorithm	An opened and unified model to encapsulate the parameterize model, runnable algorithms, and repeatable processes.