Decision Making in Engineering Design

Editor(s): Kemper E. Lewis, Wei Chen, Linda C. Schmidt


Copyright 2006, ASME

Print ISBN10: 0791802469

DOI: 10.1115/1.802469

Pages: 400

ASME Order Number: 802469



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Description


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

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Front Matter  Open Access [ PDF ]
 
Section 1
1. The Need for Design Theory Research
2. The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design [ PDF ]
Section 2: Decision Theory in Engineering Design
3. Utility Function Fundamentals [ PDF ]
4. Normative Decision Analysis in Engineering Design [ PDF ]
5. Fundamentals and Implications of Decision-Making [ PDF ]
6. Preference Modeling in Engineering Design [ PDF ]
Section 3: Concept Generation
7. Stimulating Creative Design Alternatives Using Customer Values [ PDF ]
8. Generating Design Alternatives across Abstraction Levels [ PDF ]
Section 4: Demand Modeling
9. Fundamentals of Economic Demand Modeling: Lessons from Travel Demand Analysis [ PDF ]
10. Discrete Choice Demand Modeling for Decision-Based Design [ PDF ]
11. The Role of Demand Modeling in Product Planning [ PDF ]

Section 5: Views on Aggregating Preferences in Engineering Design
12. Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis of Conflicting Preferences [ PDF ]
13. On the Legitimacy of Pairwise Comparisons [ PDF ]
14. Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Using Hypothetical Equivalents and Inequivalents [ PDF ]
15. Multiobjective Decision-Making Using Physical Programming [ PDF ]
Section 6: Making Product Design Decisions in an Enterprise Context
16. Decision-Based Collaborative Optimization of Multidisciplinary Systems [ PDF ]
17. A Designer's View to Economics and Finance [ PDF ]
18. Multilevel Optimization for Enterprise-Driven Decision-Based Product Design [ PDF ]
19. A Decision-Based Perspective on the Vehicle Development Process [ PDF ]
20. Product Development and Decision Production Systems [ PDF ]
Section 7: Decision Making in Decentralized Design Environments
21. Game Theory in Decision-Making [ PDF ]
22. Analysis of Negotiation Protocols for Distributed Design [ PDF ]
23. The Dynamics of Decentralized Design Processes: The Issue of Convergence and Its Impact on Decision-Making [ PDF ]
24. Value Aggregation for Collaborative Design Decision-Making [ PDF ]
Section 8: Validation of Design Methods
25. The Validation Square: How Does One Verify and Validate a Design Method? [ PDF ]
26. Model-Based Validation of Design Methods [ PDF ]
27. Development and Use of Design Method Validation Criteria [ PDF ]

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