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The above mentioned partial outcomes will be
based on case studies in which BIOscrabble is
applied to a sufficiently large number of different
classes of technical problems.
BIOscrabble will be connected to a platform
supporting the transfer of biological solutions
into technical solutions that is developed in
another research project.
10 FUTURE WORK
To achieve those outcomes, further research has to
be done and further case studies with the application
of BIOscrabble have to be performed to
understand possible correlations between types
of search terms and relevant biological research
articles dependent on specific classes of technical
problems.
understand possible correlations between the use
of search term variations and relevant biological
research articles dependent on specific classes of
technical problems.
understand possible correlations between the
benefit of certain graphs and specific classes of
technical problems.
extend the graphs that are currently proposed.
to further prove the text source of biological
research articles (and the database PubMed), the
types of search terms, the term variations (and
the software WordNet) and the graphs regarding
their value for solution search in bio-inspired
design.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors want to thank the students who applied
the BIOscrabble approach in their biomimetic
development projects as well as the students who
added to the development of the BIOscrabble
software prototype.
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