Constraint handling and iterative attribute model building in decision-based engineering design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 55-63

  Iyer, Harikumar ^a   Tang, Xiao ^a   Krishnamurty, Sundar ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained design; Design of Experiments; Engineering Design; Expected Utility Theory; Multiattribute Utility Function

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODEL BUILDINGS;

CONSTRAINT-HANDLING TECHNIQUES; ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE MODELS; PREFERENCE REPRESENTATION; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; ROBUST ENGINEERING DESIGN; ROBUST OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; TRADITIONAL ENGINEERINGS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 36749001955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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