Decision making in engineering design
Title:
Decision making in engineering design
Author:
Lewis, Kemper E.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. (ASME, Three Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016) : American Society of Mechanical Engineers, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 electronic text (344 p.) : ill., digital file.
Contents:
Section 1. -- 1. The need for design theory research open access -- 2. The open workshop on decision-based design--
Section 2. Decision theory in engineering design -- 3. Utility function fundamentals -- 4. Normative decision analysis in engineering design -- 5. Fundamentals and implications of decision-making -- 6. Preference modeling in engineering design --
Section 3. Concept generation -- 7. Stimulating creative design alternatives using customer values -- 8. Generating design alternatives across abstraction levels --
Section 4. Demand modeling -- 9. Fundamentals of economic demand modeling: lessons from travel demand analysis -- 10. Discrete choice demand modeling for decision-based design -- 11. The role of demand modeling in product planning --
Section 5. Views on aggregating preferences in engineering design -- 12. Multi-attribute utility analysis of conflicting preferences -- 13. On the legitimacy of pairwise comparisons -- 14. Multi-attribute decision-making using hypothetical equivalents and inequivalents -- 15. Multiobjective decision-making using physical programming --
Section 6. Making product design decisions in an enterprise context -- 16. Decision-based collaborative optimization of multidisciplinary systems -- 17. A designer's view to economics and finance -- 18. Multilevel optimization for enterprise-driven decision-based product design -- 19. A decision-based perspective on the vehicle development process -- 20. Product development and decision production systems --
Section 7. Decision making in decentralized design environments -- 21. Game theory in decision-making -- 22. Analysis of negotiation protocols for distributed design -- 23. The dynamics of decentralized design processes: the issue of convergence and its impact on decision-making -- 24. Value aggregation for collaborative design decision-making --
Section 8. Validation of design methods -- 25. The validation square: how does one verify and validate a design method? -- 26. Model-based validation of design methods -- 27. Development and use of design method validation criteria -- Index.
Abstract:
Whether you are an engineer facing decisions in product design, an instructor or student engaged in course work, or a researcher exploring new options and opportunities, you can turn to Decision Making in Engineering Design for: Foundations and fundamentals of making decisions in product design; Clear examples of effective application of Decision-Based Design; State-of-the-art theory and practice in Decision-Based Design; Thoughtful insights on validation, uncertainty, preferences, distributed design, demand modeling, and other issues; End-of-chapter exercise problems to facilitate learning. With this advanced text, you become current with research results on DBD developed since the inception of The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.
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