Fuzzy Methods Applied to Negotiation and Concurrency in Engineering Design

该奖项为开发一种基于集合的方法来正式确定工程设计过程中的谈判和权衡提供了资金，特别是在许多工程师和许多团队参与决策的情况下。对于大型和/或复杂的工程系统，这是常见的情况。这项工作建立在不精确方法和最近开发的基于集合的方法的基础上，并寻求为初步工程设计创造一种组合方法，该方法将允许具有冲突目标的群体之间进行正式谈判。研究方法将利用模糊集的数学。如果成功，这项研究的结果可以减少工程设计时间，提高设计质量，特别是对于大型和/或复杂的工程系统。结果之一是增加了在工程设计过程中可能依次完成的工作的并发或重叠程度。这将大大减少创造一个成功的设计所需的时间，从而提高美国工业的竞争能力。基于集合的设计方法的非正式使用已经证明了设计周期的缩短。

9523232 Antonsson This award provides funding to develop a set-based approach to formalizing negotiations and trade-offs in the engineering design process, particularly where many engineers and many groups are involved in decision-making. This is commonly the case for large and/or complex engineering systems. This work builds on the method of imprecision and a recently developed set-based approach, and seeks to create a combined approach for preliminary engineering design that will permit formal negotiation among groups with conflicting goals. The research approach will make use of the mathematics of fuzzy sets. If successful, the results of this research could reduce engineering design time and increase design quality, particularly for large and/or complex engineering systems. One outcome will be the increased level of concurrence or overlap of work that might otherwise be done sequentially in the engineering design process. This could significantly decrease the time needed to create a successful design and thus improve the competitive ability of U.S. industry. The informal use of set-based design methods has already demonstrated a shortening of the design cycle.