...Tai-Tuck Yu; James P. Scanlan; Richard M. Crowder; Gary B. Wills Discrete-event modeling has long been used for logistics and scheduling problems, while multi-agent modeling closely matches human decision-making process. In this paper, a metric-based comparison between the traditional discrete...

... characteristic of MDO is to apply a two-level computing structure, which consists of a system level and a disciplinary level. Cramer et al. ( 4 ) summarized three MDO approaches, in which the system level was responsible for optimization (or decision making) activities and the disciplinary level for domain...

... requirements. The metric embodies quantitatively the potential for improvement in the achievement of product requirements by adding more information for design decision-making. The method is illustrated via a datacenter cooling system design example. 08 03 2008 25 07 2008 28 05 2009...

...Shouhua Yuan; Xiao Liu; Yiliu Tu; Deyi Xue Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied in evaluating multicriteria decision making problems, which have multi-input and multi-output. However, the traditional DEA method does neither take the decision maker’s subjective preferences...

... tools to assist decision making. The plan-searching module identifies the necessary actions with proper sequence that can achieve the expected performance goal. The generation process is based upon the information collected with the model-building module. The first task is to identify...

... with infinite solution sets. While VDS provides a “roadmap” to engage visualization in a design process, specific applications are very much problem dependent. The following is a survey of the visualization methods to view multidimensional design data to aid in decision making. These works validate the VDS...

... for PLM implementation. It can help track and analyze the financial information of activities associated with each phase of a product’s lifecycle. The paper presents a framework of the product lifecycle costing system for supporting decision making, especially the decision making at very early stages...

..., the relevant knowledge for construction of fuzzy rules may not be available from handbooks, like the above example. The necessary knowledge for constructing fuzzy rules could be obtained by solving various problems involving fixed boundary conditions. The decision-making unit contains an inference...