Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design

✍ Scribed by Professor Pratyush Sen, Dr. Jian-Bo Yang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design examines some of the underlying issues and related modelling strategies, with a view to exploring the rich potential of a generalised multiple-criteria approach to design decision-making. The arguments are supported by numerical examples. It can be argued that, within the classic monocriterion paradigm, the optimal solution is inarguably identified once the feasible alternatives are established and an objective function agreed on. It is only when conflict resolution is involved that decision-making truly becomes important, and many design situations exist where stated functional requirements may be in actual or potential conflict. The most preferred solution under such circumstances depends on the designer's or decision-maker's priorities, so that the chosen solution is based on a combination of technical possibilities and designer preferences. This book addresses the key concepts in multiple criteria decision-making and provides valuable insight into how such problems arise and can be solved, in the area of decision-making in general and in the domain of engineering design in particular.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
MCDM and the Nature of Decision Making in Design....Pages 13-20
Multiple Attribute Decision Making....Pages 21-112
Multiple Objective Decision Making....Pages 113-175
Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Genetic Algorithms....Pages 176-210
An Integrated Multiple Criteria Decision Support System....Pages 211-241
Past, Present and the Future....Pages 242-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-264

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk