Fuzzy Methods Applied to Negotiation and Concurrency in Engineering Design

小行星9523232 该奖项提供资金，以开发一种基于集合的方法，在工程设计过程中正式化谈判和权衡，特别是在许多工程师和许多团体参与决策的情况下。 这通常是大型和/或复杂工程系统的情况。 这项工作建立在不精确的方法和最近开发的基于集合的方法，并试图创建一个初步的工程设计，这将允许正式的目标冲突的群体之间的谈判相结合的方法。 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。 结果之一将是增加并行或重叠的工作，否则可能在工程设计过程中顺序完成。 这可以大大减少创建成功设计所需的时间，从而提高美国工业的竞争力。 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.