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Design has long been an area of particular interest for AI researchers. Herbert Simon's 1968 Karl Taylor Compton lectures on the sciences of the artificial included substantial material on design. However, only recently have design researchers embraced paradigms from AI and AI researchers chosen design as a domain to study. Design research is a relatively new field, commencing in the 1960s with developments in design theories and methodologies. Although the results of the early design research produced domainindependent approaches to understanding and structuring design, the designers themselves were more comfortable with research that was specific to their own discipline.