The paper by Woodbury and Burrow is examined using four criteria:
completeness, discrimination, alternative approaches, and combining
exploration in different problem domains. Although the paper covers
significant aspects of the search space literature it leaves out some
relevant aspects of the cognitive approach. It fares much better in terms
of discriminating important concepts and alternative approaches to the
modeling of the design search space. The
structure–function–behavior model is suggested as an
analogy for the central parameters of the search space paradigm. The
Woodbury and Burrow paper reveals more than what has been accomplished up
to now in the design search space area, but its task still remains
incomplete.