CAREER: Development of Design Decision Support Methods for Large-Scale Systems

该学院早期职业发展奖提供资金，以开发方法，以支持复杂的大规模系统设计中合理和合理的决策。研究包括：(1)开发博弈论方法来模拟由多个设计师或设计团队执行的大规模设计问题；(2)使用统计和概率技术来开发方法来近似设计师或子系统之间的决策界面；以及(3)将现代运筹学和可视化技术集成到决策支持工具中，以描述和预测各种决策对产品性能和配置的影响。教育目标是培养当地K-12学校的工程设计意识和相关课程，将系统设计技术和技能整合到本科和研究生课程中，并继续利用布法罗大学的网络和多媒体能力开发系统设计远程学习课程。如果成功，这项研究的结果将导致能够描述现有的设计过程协议，快速探索系统决策权衡，并预测不同战略决策结构的影响。这项研究的主要好处包括允许设计人员在大型系统的设计中量化接口。这些接口包括集成和协调多个决策者或团队的权衡，子系统之间的功能接口，以及产品实现阶段(如设计和制造)之间的接口。

This Faculty Early Career Development award provides funding to develop methods to support sound and rational decision making in complex, large-scale systems design. The research initiatives include: (1) developing game theory methods to model large-scale design problems that are being performed by multiple designers or design teams,(2) using statistical and probabilistic techniques to develop methods to approximate the decision interfaces among designers or subsystems, and (3) integrating modern operations research and visualization techniques into decision support tools to describe and predict the effects of various decisions on product performance and configuration. The educational aims are to develop engineering design awareness and associated programs in local K-12 schools, integrate systems design technology and techniques into the undergraduate and graduate curriculums, and continue to develop systems design distance learning courses utilizing network and multimedia capabilities at the University at Buffalo. If successful, the results of this research will lead to the capability to describe existing design process protocols, rapidly explore system decision tradeoffs, and predict the effects of different strategic decision structures. The primary benefits of this research include allowing designers to quantify the interfaces in the design of large-scale systems. These interfaces include the tradeoffs in integrating and coordinating multiple decision-makers or teams, functional interfaces between subsystems, and interfaces between temporal product realization stages, such as design and manufacturing.