Decision making in engineering design /

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Corporate Author: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Other Authors: Chen, Wei, 1966 September 4-, Lewis, Kemper E, Schmidt, Linda C
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. (ASME, Three Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016) : American Society of Mechanical Engineers, c2006
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Table of 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