An ontological basis for computer aided innovation

Computer-Aided Sketching: Incorporating the Locus to Improve the Three-Dimensional Geometric Design

This article presents evidence of the convenience of implementing the geometric places of the plane into commercial computer-aided design (CAD) software as auxiliary tools in the computer-aided sketching process. Additionally, the research considers the possibility of adding several intuitive spatial geometric places to improve the efficiency of the three-dimensional geometric design. For demonstrative purposes, four examples are presented. A two-dimensional figure positioned on the flat face of an object shows the significant improvement over tools currently available in commercial CAD software, both vector and parametric: it is more intuitive and does not require the designer to execute as many operations. Two more complex three-dimensional examples are presented to show how the use of spatial geometric places, implemented as CAD software functions, would be an effective and highly intuitive tool. Using these functions produces auxiliary curved surfaces with points whose notable features are a significant innovation. A final example provided solves a geometric place problem using own software designed for this purpose. The proposal to incorporate geometric places into CAD software would lead to a significant improvement in the field of computational geometry. Consequently, the incorporation of geometric places into CAD software could increase technical-design productivity by eliminating some intermediate operations, such as symmetry, among others, and improving the geometry training of less skilled users.

Gamified Software to Support the Design of Business Innovation

Business innovation is a process that requires creativity, and benefits from extensive collaboration. Currently, computational support in creativity processes is low, but modern techniques would allow these processes to be sped up. In this context, we provide such a computational support with software for business innovation design that uses computational creativity techniques. Furthermore, the software enables a gamified process to increase user engagement and collaboration, which mimics evolutionary methods, relying on a voting mechanism. The software includes a business innovation ontology representing the domain knowledge that is used to generate and select a set of diverse preliminary representations of business ideas. Indeed, the most promising for novelty and potential impact are identified to ignite a business innovation game where team members collaborate to elaborate new innovation ideas based on those inputs until convergence to a shortlist of business model proposals. The main features of the approach are illustrated by means of a running example concerning innovative services for smart cities.

ENGINEERING INNOVATION-RELATED KNOWLEDGE: HOW A CORE ONTOLOGY MAKES INNOVATIONS RETRIEVABLE FOR INNOVATION SEEKERS

The motivation of this paper is to name the central lines of development in the research field of innovation-related knowledge engineering. This helps to define the starting point for an urgently required interdisciplinary academic discussion about the design of a core ontology for innovations. A review about the currently known ontologies for innovation emphasizes the need for engineering a core ontology for innovations based on a valid consensual understanding of the term innovation. In a universally applicable conception, innovation is characterized as a (re-) combination of purposes and means. A transmission of this conceptualization is presented, visualized and its usage shown through the ontology InnOnto. The paper concludes with implications for future research tasks in the field of innovation-related knowledge engineering.