Intelligent design (disambiguation)

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Most general, intelligent design is a design performed using methods which can be considered intelligent. More preciselly, the meaning of this term depends strongly on the interpretation of the concept intelligence and on the domain and objectives of a particular design.

In the software engineering, it denotes the design methods which use artificial intelligence technology as tools. This approach is focused on the development of the different active and semi-Intelligent Decision Support Systems (Intelligent DSS) for designers.

The concept Intelligent Design (ID) is used by the Discovery Institute in the context of the explenation of the Universe. It investigates a hypothesis that "certain features of the Universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a version of the ancient argument for God called the teleological argument, reframed with the assertion that it is a scientific theory finding signs of design by an unidentifiable intelligent being.

[edit] Related uses of the term include

• Intelligent design movement
• The book Intelligent Design (William A. Dembski, 1999)
• The book Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers (Raël, 2006)
• The book Darwin Awards IV: Intelligent Design (Wendy Northcutt, 2006)
• Intelligent designer
• Theistic evolution: intelligent design
• Shan Feng, Ling X. Li and Ling Cen. An object-oriented intelligent design tool to aid the design of manufacturing systems

Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 14, Issues 5-6, August 2001, Pages 225-232.

• Hybrid architectures and their impact on intelligent design. Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 12, Issue 3, April 1997, Page IV.