Books
Chakrabarti A (Editor). Design Synthesis: Issues, Understanding and Methods, Springer Verlag, London, February 2002.
Blessing L.T.M. and Chakrabarti A. How to Do Design Research: A Design Research Methodology, Springer Verlag, London, In press, 2002.
Papers:
Chakrabarti A. Editor's Introduction: Engineering Design Synthesis, Engineering Design Synthesis: Understanding, Approaches and Tools, Springer Verlag, London, 2002.
Chakrabarti, A., Langdon, P., Liu, Y-C., and Bligh, T.P. Supporting Compositional Synthesis on Computers, Engineering Design Synthesis: Understanding, Approaches and Tools, Springer Verlag, London, , 2002.
Liu, Y.C., Chakrabarti, A., and Bligh, T.P. Further Developments of FuncSION, , Artificial Intelligence in Design'00, J.S. Gero (Ed.), pp- 499-519, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Blessing, L.T.M., Chakrabarti A. and Wallace, K.M. An Overview of Design Studies in Relation to a Design Research Methodology, Designers: the Key to Successful Product Development, Frankenberger & Badke-Schaub (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1998 (Also Invited paper for the Darmstadt Symposium on Designers: the Key to Successful Product Development, TU Darmstadt, 3-5 December 1997).
Chakrabarti, A. and Tang, M.X. GeneneratingConceptual Solutions on FuncSION: Evolution of a Functional Synthesiser, Artificial Intelligence in Design '96, J.S. Gero and F. Sudweeks (Eds.), pp-603-622, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
Chakrabarti A. and Bligh T.P. A Two-Step Approach to Conceptual Design of Mechanical Devices, Artificial Intelligence in Design '94, J.S. Gero and F. Sudweeks (Eds.), pp-21-38, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
Shrinivasa U. and Chakrabarti A. Design of an Expert System for Signature Analysis, Expert Systems for management and Engineering, E. Balagurusamy and J.A.M. Howe (Eds.), Section II: Expert Systems Architecture, Techniques and Tools, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, England, pp-185-196, 1990.
Invited Papers
Chakrabarti, A., and Blessing, A design research methodology, in international council on the science of design- the scientifiv challenge of the 21st century, INSA, Lyoh, France, 15-16 march 2002.
Chakrabarti, A., and Blessing, L. A Summary of the 1st Cambridge Design Synthesis Workshop, Synthesis 2000 Symposium, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo, December 2000.
Chakrabarti, A. Generation and Exploration of Conceptual Design Solutions on Computers, Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshops on Engineering Design in Integrated Product Development, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland, October 1998.
Chakrabarti, A. Reasoning with Shapes: A Case Study, Annual Meeting of the CAD Group, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tokyo, November 1997.
Papers In Refereed Journals
Chakrabarti A. and Bligh T. P. A Scheme for Functional Reasoning in Mechanical Conceptual Design, Design Studies, 22, 6, pp-493-517, November 2001.
Chakrabarti. A. Improving Efficiency of Procedures for Compositional Synthesis Using Bi-Directional Search, AI in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 15, 1, pp-67-80, 2001.
Liu, Y-C., Chakrabarti A., and Bligh, T.P. Towards an Ideal Divergent-Convergent Approach to Design, Accepted for Design Studies Journal, 2001.
Chakrabarti, A. Increasing Efficiency of Compositional Synthesis by Improving the Database of its Building Blocks, AI in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 14, 5, pp-403-414, 2000.
Chakrabarti A. and Bligh T. P. Functional Synthesis of Solution-Concepts in Mechanical Conceptual Design. Part II: Kind Synthesis, Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp-52-62, 1996.
Chakrabarti A. and Bligh T. P. Functional Synthesis of Solution-Concepts in Mechanical Conceptual Design. Part III: Spatial Configuration, Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp-116-124, 1996.
Chakrabarti A., and Bligh, T.P. An Approach to Functional Synthesis of Design Concepts: Theory, Application, and Emerging Research Issues, AI in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp-313-331, 1996.
Chakrabarti A., and Blessing, L. Special Issue: Representing Functionality in Design, AI in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp-251-253, 1996.
Chakrabarti A. and Bligh T. P. Functional Synthesis of Solution-Concepts in Mechanical Conceptual Design. Part I: Knowledge Representation, Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp-127-141, 1994.