Decision Making in Engineering Design

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.

Preface
About the Editors
Table of Contents

Section 1
Chapter 1 : The Need for Design Theory Research
Chapter 2 : The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design

Section 2 : Decision Theory in Engineering Design : Introduction
Chapter 3 : Utility Function Fundamentals
Chapter 4 : Normative Decision Analysis in Engineering Design
Chapter 5 : Fundamentals and Implications of Decision Making
Chapter 6 : Preference Modeling in Engineering Design

Section 3 : Concept Generation
Chapter 7 : Stimulating Creative Design Alternatives Using Customer Values
Chapter 8 : Generating Design Alternatives Across Abstraction Levels

Section 4 : Demand Modeling
Chapter 9 : Fundamentals of Economic Demand Modeling : Lessons from Travel Demand Analysis
Chapter 10 : Discrete Choice Demand Modeling for Decision-Based Design
Chapter 11 : The Role of Demand Modeling in Product Planning

Section 5 : Views on Aggregating Preferences in Engineering Design
Chapter 12 : Multiattribute Utility Analysis of Conflicting Preferences
Chapter 13 : On the Legitimacy of Pairwise Comparisons
Chapter 14 : Multiattribute Decision Making Using Hypothetical Equivalents and Inequivalents
Chapter 15 : Multiobjective Decision Making Using Physical Programming

Section 6 : Making Product Design Decisions in an Enterprise Context
Chapter 16 : Decision-Based Collaborative Optimization of Multidisciplinary Systems
Chapter 17 : A Designer’s View to Economics and Finance
Chapter 18 : Multilevel Optimization for Enterprise Driven Decision-Based Product Design
Chapter 19 : A Decision-Based Perspective on the Vehicle Development Process
Chapter 20 : Product Development and Decision Production Systems

Section 7 : Decision Making in Decentralized Design Environments
Chapter 21 : Game Theory in Decision Making
Chapter 22 : Analysis of Negotiation Protocols for Distributed Design
Chapter 23 : The Dynamics of Decentralized Design Processes : The Issue of Convergence and Its Impact on Decision Making
Chapter 24 : Value Aggregation for Collaborative Design Decision Making

Section 8 : Validation of Design Methods
Chapter 25 : The Validation Square : How Does One Verify and Validate a Design Method?
Chapter 26 : Model-Based Validation of Design Methods
Chapter 27 : Development and Use of Design Method Validation Criteria

Index