A constraint-based approach to feasibility assessment in preliminary design

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 351-367

  Gurnani, Ashwin ^a   Ferguson, Scott ^a   Lewis, Kemper ^a   Donndelinger, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Decision support system; Multiobjective optimization; Pareto frontier

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PRODUCT DESIGN; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FIVE-OBJECTIVE PASSENGER; PARETO FRONTIER;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 33947359047     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: 14691760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060406060252     Document Type: Article

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