Design computing and cognition

Design Computing and Cognition has been through the years a recurring topic of AI EDAM special issues. A regular stream of articles is constituted by updated and extended versions of papers presented at the homonymous conference, the International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC). This special issue embeds a selection of suitably extended and updated papers that were presented at DCC’18 and are complemented by further contributions aimed to depict the latest research and some relevant trends in this domain. The growth of awareness about the fundamental importance of ‘designing’ changes in all dimensions of society is accompanied by the increased rigor of research in Design, along with the differentiation of research motivations and objectives. Similarly, in the computational domain, design research can be carried out by conjecturing design processes, constructing computational models of those processes, and then examining the behaviors of the resulting computational systems in simulated experiments.