Modeling of Computer-Based Decisions and Optimization in Design Process

设计的一个重要方面是将相互冲突的目标平衡成一个统一的目标。因此，设计师可以被视为一个决策者，负责确定最符合整体设计目标的替代方案。本研究的重点是用可操作的形式表示设计目标的方法，适合于标准优化配方。本研究的目的是促进对设计决策的理解，并在计算中形式化这一过程。研究将集中在决策过程形式化的三个方面：设计目标集合的操作模型的构建和偏好结构的表示；将决策模型和优化算法整合到一个独特的计算过程中；以及在基于规则的计算环境中对这些信息的管理。该方法利用设计评价准则的模糊集表示，利用灵敏度和约束活动信息促进优化与决策之间的沟通。在计算环境中实现这些思想将促进和组织对设计决策过程的理解。

An important aspect of design is the balancing of conflicting objectives into a unified goal. Thus, the designer can be viewed as a decision maker charged with identifying alternatives that best match the overall design objectives. This research focuses on methods to represent design goals in an operational form, suitable for standard optimization formulations. The goal of the research is to contribute to the understanding of decision making in design and the formalization of this process in computations. The research will focus on three aspects of the formalization of the decision process: the construction of operational models for the aggregation of design objectives and the representation of preference structures; the incorporation of decision making models and optimization algorithms into a unique computational process; and the management of this information in a rule-based, computational environment. The methodology relies on fuzzy set representation of criteria for design evaluation and on the exploitation of sensitivity and constraint activity information to facilitate the communication between optimization and decision making. The implementation of these ideas in a computational environment will promote and organize the understanding of the process of decision making in design.