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Blackwell, A. D; Eckert, C. M.; Bucciarelli, L. L and Earl, C. F. (2009). Witnesses to design: A phenomenology of comparative design. Design Issues, 25(1) pp. 36–47.

Chau, Hau Hing; McKay, Alison; Earl, Christopher F.; Behera, Amar Kumar and de Pennington, Alan (2018). Exploiting lattice structures in shape grammar implementations. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 32(2) pp. 147–161.

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Eckert, Claudia; Isaksson, Ola; Lebjioui, Safaa; Earl, Christopher and Edlund, Stefan (2020). Design margins in industrial practice. Design Science, 6, article no. e30.

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Eckert, Claudia; Isaksson, Ola and Earl, Chris (2019). Design Margins: A hidden issue in industry. Design Science, 5, article no. e9.

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Earl, Chris (2018). [Obituary] Lionel March: Sharing ideas through research. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 45(4) 598 -600.

Earl, Chris (2017). [Book Review] Adam Sharr and Stephen Thornton, Demolishing Whitehall: Leslie Martin, Harold Wilson and the architecture of white heat. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 44(1) pp. 180–181.

Earl, Christopher F. and Jowers, Iestyn (2015). Pinwheel patterns: from 2D to 3D schemas. Nexus Network Journal, 17(3) pp. 899–912.

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Eckert, Claudia; Isaksson, Ola and Earl, Christopher (2014). Design margins as a key to understanding design iteration. In: 2nd Biennial International Conference on Dynamics for Design; 26th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (IDETC/CIE 2014), 17-20 Aug 2014, Buffalo, New York, USA, ASME.

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Eckert, Claudia; Stacey, Martin and Earl, Christopher (2013). Formality in design communication. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 27(2) pp. 91–103.

Eckert, Claudia; Earl, Christopher; Lebjioui, Safaa and Isaksson, Ola (2013). Components margins through the product lifecycle. In: Product Lifecycle Management for Society, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, pp. 39–47.

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Eckert, Claudia; Blackwell, Alan; Stacey, Martin; Earl, Christopher and Church, Luke (2012). Sketching across design domains: roles and formalities. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 26(3) pp. 245–266.

Eckert, Claudia; Isaksson, Ola and Earl, Christopher (2012). Product property margins: an underlying critical problem of engineering design. In: Proceedings of TMCE 2012, pp. 1027–1040.

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Eckert, C. M.; Blackwell, A. F.; Bucciarelli, L. L. and Earl, C. F. (2010). Shared conversations across design. Design Issues, 26(3) pp. 27–39.

Eckert, Claudia M.; Keller, Rene; Earl, Chris and Clarkson, P. John (2006). Supporting change processes in design: Complexity, prediction and reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91(12) pp. 1521–1534.

Eckert, Claudia; Stacey, Martin and Earl, Christopher (2005). References to past designs. In: Gero, J. S. and Bonnardel, N. eds. Studying Designers '05. Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, pp. 3–21.

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Earl, C.; Eckert, C.; Bucciarelli, L.; Whitney, D.; Knight, T.; Stacey, M.; Blackwell, A.; Macmillan, S. and Clarkson, P. J. (2005). Comparative study of design: application to Engineering Design. In: 15th International Conference in Engineering Design, ICED 2005, 15-18 Aug 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

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Eckert, C. M.; Earl, C. E. and Clarkson, P. J. (2005). Predictability of change in engineering: A complexity view. In: Design Engineering Division, ASME and Computers and Information in Engineering Division, ASME eds. 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, pp. 341–350.

Earl, Chris; Johnson, Jeffrey and Eckert, Claudia (2005). Complexity. In: Clarkson, John and Eckert, Claudia eds. Design Process Improvement: A Review Of Current Practice. London, U.K.: Springer Science + Business Media, pp. 174–197.

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Eckert, Claudia; Earl, Christopher; Stacey, Martin; Bucciarelli, Louis L. and Clarkson, P. John (2005). Risk across design domains. In: 15th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED05), 15-18 Aug 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

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Earl, Christopher; Eckert, Claudia and Johnson, Jeffrey (2005). Complexity of planning in design. In: Tumer, Irem Y.; Hayes, Caroline and Gupta, S. K. eds. Proceedings of the 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Earl, Chris; Eckert, Claudia and Clarkson, John (2005). Design change and complexity. In: 2nd Workshop on Complexity in Design and Engineering, Mar 2005, University of Glasgow, UK.

Earl, C.; Eckert, C. and Johnson, J. (2004). Complexity models in design. In: Design 2004 (Proceedings of the 8th International Design Conference) (Marjanovic, D. ed.), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 163–168.

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Eckert, Claudia; Blackwell, B. D.; Bucciarelli, L. L.; Clarkson, P. J.; Earl, Christopher; Knight, T. W.; Macmillan, S.; Stacey, M. K and Whitney, D. E. (2004). What designers think we need to know about their processes: early results from a comparative study. In: Proceedings of Design 2004, 8th International Design Conference, 18-21 May 2004, Dubrovnik - Cavtat, Croatia.

Eckert, Claudia; Blackwell, A. D.; Stacey, M. K. and Earl, Christopher (2004). Sketching across design domains. In: Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design, 22-23 Jul 2003, University of Sydney, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Eckert, Claudia; Stacey, Martin and Earl, Christopher (2003). Ambiguity is a double-edged sword: similarity references in communication. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design.

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Earl, Christopher; Song, Dong Ping and Hicks, Christian (2003). Planning complex engineer-to-order products. In: Gogu, Grigore; Coutellier, Daniel; Chedmail, Patrick and Ray, Pascal eds. Recent Advances in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering. Dordecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, pp. 463–472.

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Earl, C. F. and Eckert, C. M. (2002). The structure of similarity in design. In: Engineering Design Conference (EDC 2002), 9-11 Jul 2002, London, UK, pp. 527–536.

Eckert, C. M. and Earl, C. F. (2002). Perspectives on similarity in design. In: 7th International Design Conference (Design 2002), 14-17 May 2002, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 131–136.

Earl, C. F.; Eckert, C. M. and Johnson, J. (2001). Complexity in planning design processes. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Engineering Design: Design Research – Theories, Methodologies and Product Modelling (ICED'01), 21-23 Aug 2001, Glasgow, UK, pp. 149–156.

Harrison, Laura; Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2019). Defining Rules for Kinematic Shapes with Variable Spatial Relations. In: Computer-Aided Architectural Design. "Hello, Culture" (Lee, Ji-Hyun ed.), Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Singapore, pp. 444–458.

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Harrison, Laura; Earl, Christopher and Eckert, Claudia (2015). Exploratory making: Shape, structure and motion. Design Studies, 41(A) pp. 51–78.

Hasan, Saad; Eckert, Claudia and Earl, Chris (2012). Supply chain collaboration under uncertainty. In: 21st Annual IPSERA Conference: Purchasing & Supply Management in a Changing World, 1-4 Apr 2012, Naples, Italy.

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Hasan, S.; Eckert, C. M. and Earl, C. F. (2011). Strategic, tactical decisions and information in Rapid Manufacturing supply chain. In: Twelfth National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing, 17 Jun 2011, Lancaster, UK.

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Harrison, Laura; Earl, Christopher and Eckert, Claudia (2011). The role of rapid prototyping in the generative design of mechanisms. In: 12th Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping & Manufacturing, 17 Jun 2011, Lancaster University, CRDM Ltd.

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Hicks, C.; Song, D. P. and Earl, C. F. (2007). Dynamic scheduling for complex engineer-to-order products. International Journal of Production Research, 45(15) pp. 3477–3503.

Hicks, Christian; Song, Dong-Ping and Earl, Christopher F. (2006). An ordinal optimization based evolution strategy to schedule complex make-to-order products. International Journal of Production Research, 44(22) pp. 4877–4895.

Hicks, Chris; McGovern, Tom and Earl, Chris F. (2001). A Typology of UK Engineer-to-Order Companies. International Journal of Logistics: research and applications, 4(1) pp. 43–56.

Jowers, Iestyn; Earl, Chris and Stiny, George (2019). Shapes, structures and shape grammar implementation. Computer-Aided Design, 111 pp. 80–92.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Chris (2018). Visual Structures of Embedded Shapes. In: Lee, Ji-Hyun ed. Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity. KAIST Research Series. Springer, pp. 175–187.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2017). Structures in shapes: a perspective from rules and embedding. In: Cultural DNA Workshop 2017, 13 Jan 2017, KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology.

Jowers, Iestyn; Earl, Chris and Stiny, George (2017). Shape computations without compositions. In: Çağdaş, G.; Özkar, M.; Gül, L. F. and Gürer, E. eds. Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Future Trajectories. 17th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2017, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-14, 2017, Selected Papers. Springer, pp. 348–365.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2017). Incommensurable design descriptions. In: Creative Design and Advanced Manufacturing: An emerging application area for Signals and Systems, 2 Sep 2017, 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2015). Extending the algebras of design. Nexus Network Journal, 17(3) pp. 947–962.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Chris (2012). Shape interpretation with design computing. In: Fifth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DDC'12): Bringing Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computational Theories to Design Research, 7-9 Jun 2012, Bryan, TX, USA.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2011). Implementation of curved shape grammars. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38(4) pp. 616–635.

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Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2010). The construction of curved shapes. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 37(1) pp. 42–58.

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Jowers, Iestyn; Prats, Miquel; Earl, Christopher and Garner, Steven (2004). On curves and computation with shapes. In: Generative CAD Systems (Akin, Omer; Krishnamurti, Ramesh and Lam, Khee Poh eds.), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 439–457.

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Liu, Yan; Eckert, Claudia M. and Earl, Christopher (2022). Assessing Suppliers for Complex Products from the Perspective of Power. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(4) pp. 1605–1621.

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Lebjioui, S.; Eckert, C. M. and Earl, C. (2016). Understanding the relationship between design margins and trade-offs. In: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2016 14th International Design Conference (Marjanović, D.; Štorga, M.; Pavković, N.; Bojčetić, N. and Škec, S. eds.), pp. 1515–1522.

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MacKay, A.; Hau Hing, C.; Earl, C. F.; Behera, A. K.; de Pennington, A. and Hogg, D. C. (2019). A lattice-based approach for navigating design configuration spaces. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 42, article no. 100928.

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McGilp, H.; Eckert, C. and Earl, C. (2016). Don’t Look Back: The Paradoxical Role of Recording in the Fashion Design Process. In: Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking (Lloyd, P. and Bohemia, E. eds.), Design Research Society, London, pp. 2521–2534.

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McKay, Alison; Chase, Scott; Garner, Steven; Jowers, Iestyn; Prats, Miquel; Hogg, David; Chau, Hau Hing; de Pennington, Alan; Earl, Christopher and Lim, Sungwoo (2010). Design synthesis and shape generation. In: Inns, Tom ed. Designing for the 21st Century, Volume 2. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 304–321.

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Paterson, Gareth and Earl, Chris (2011). Line and plane to solid: analyzing their use in design practice through shape rules. In: International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, 10-14 Jul 2010, Stuttgart, pp. 251–267.

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Paterson, Gareth; Garner, Steven and Earl, Christopher (2007). Multimodality through physical digital design. In: International Association of Societies of Design Research, 12-15 Nov 2007, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Prats, Miquel and Earl, C.F. (2006). Exploration through drawings in the conceptual stages of product design. In: Gero, J. ed. Design Computing and Cognition. Springer, pp. 83–102.

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Prats, M.; Earl, C.; Garner, S. and Jowers, Iestyn (2006). Shape exploration of designs in a style: toward generation of product designs. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 20(3) pp. 201–215.

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Stavey, M.K.; Eckert, Claudia and Earl, Christopher (2009). From Ronchamp by sledge: on the pragmatics of object references. In: McDonnell, Janet and Lloyd, Peter eds. About designing: analysing design meetings. London: CRC Press, pp. 360–379.

Song, Dong-Ping and Earl, Christopher F. (2008). Optimal empty vehicle repositioning and fleet-sizing for two-depot service systems. European Journal of Operational Research, 185(2) pp. 760–777.

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Stacey, M. K.; Eckert, C. M. and Earl, C. (2007). From ronchamp by sledge: on the pragmatics of object references. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS'07), 19-21 Sep 2007, London, UK.

Stacey, M. K.; Earl, Christopher; Eckert, Claudia and O'Donovan, B. D. (2003). A methodology for comparing design processes. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'03), 19-21 Aug 2003, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Song, D.P.; Hicks, C. and Earl, C.F. (2002). Product due date assignment for complex assemblies. International Journal of Production Economics, 76(3) pp. 243–256.

Song, D.P.; Earl, C.F. and Hicks, C. (2001). Stage due date planning for multistage assembly systems. International Journal of Production Research, 39(9) pp. 1943–1954.

Song, Dongping; Hicks, C. and Earl, C.F. (2001). Setting planned job release times in stochastic assembly systems with resource constraints. International Journal of Production Research, 39(6) pp. 1289–1301.

Tahera, Khadija; Wynn, David C.; Earl, Chris and Eckert, Claudia M. (2019). Testing in the incremental design and development of complex products. Research in Engineering Design, 30(2) pp. 291–316.

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Tahera, Khadija; Earl, Chris and Eckert, Claudia (2017). A Method for Improving Overlapping of Testing and Design. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 64(2) pp. 179–192.

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Tahera, Khadija; Eckert, Claudia and Earl, Christopher (2015). Highlighting the importance of testing in the product development process. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED15).

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Tahera, Khadija; Earl, Christopher and Eckert, Claudia (2014). Integrating virtual and physical testing to accelerate the engineering product development process. International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 13(2/3) pp. 154–175.

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Tahera, Khadija; Earl, Chris F. and Eckert, Claudia (2013). Improving overlapping between testing and design in engineering product development processes. In: ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 4-7 Aug 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA.

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Tahera, Khadija; Eckert, Claudia and Earl, Christopher (2013). Optimizing overlap between testing and design in engineering product development processes. In: 23rd CIRP Design Conference, 14-15 Mar 2013, Bochum, Germany, Springer, pp. 201–210.

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Tahera, K.; Earl, C. and Eckert, C. (2012). Integrating physical and virtual testing to improve confidence in product design. In: Workshop on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes, 29-30 Nov 2012, Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

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Tahera, Khadija; Earl, Christopher and Eckert, Claudia (2012). The role of testing in the engineering product development process. In: Proceedings of TMCE 2012, 7-11 May 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Umney, Darren; Earl, Christopher and Lloyd, Peter (2016). Design as analysis: examining the use of precedents in parliamentary debate. In: Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.

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Zapico, Miguel; Eckert, Claudia; Jowers, Iestyn and Earl, Christopher (2015). Towards product platform introduction: optimising commonality of components. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED15).

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