Decision support in concurrent engineering - The utility-based selection decision support problem

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Fernández, Marco Gero ^a   Conner Seepersad, Carolyn ^a   Rosen, David W ^a   Allen, Janet K ^a   Mistree, Farrokh ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Decision support problem; Distributed collaborative design and manufacture; Rapid prototyping; Risk; Selection; Uncertainty; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

DECISION SUPPORT PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN-AND-MANUFACTURE; UTILITY BASED SELECTION DECISION SUPPORT METHOD; UTILITY THEORY;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 14644433150     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X05050912     Document Type: Article

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