On the complexity of the design synthesis problem

Maimon, Oded; Braha, Dan

doi:10.1109/3468.477869

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“…The question of quantifying the complexity of engineering design fascinated me from the start. Using the 'module-relationship' representation of design, I have introduced information-theoretic methods and computational complexity analysis to measure the amount of information and inherent difficulty embedded in design products and design processes [3,18,19]. While the efforts leading to the formation of a formal design theory were off to a good start, the theory dealt mostly with design processes from the perspective of a single designer.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Design Theory: From Individual Design Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

DTM at 25: Essays on Themes and Future Directions

Braha

Brown

Chakrabarti

et al. 2013

Volume 5: 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; ASME 2013 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference

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This paper describes the development and evolution of research themes in the Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) conference. Essays containing reflections on the history of DTM, supported by an analysis of session titles and papers winning the "best paper award", describe the development of the research themes. A second set of essays describes the evolution of several key research themes. Two broad trends in research themes are evident, with a third one emerging. The topics of the papers in the first decade or so reflect an underlying aim to apply artificial intelligence toward developing systems that could 'design'. To do so required understanding how human designers behave, formalizing design processes so that they could be computed, and formalizing representations of design knowledge. The themes in the first DTM conference and the recollections of the DTM founders reflect this underlying aim. The second decade of DTM saw the emergence of product development as an underlying concern and included a growth in a systems view of design. More recently, there appears to be a trend toward design-led innovation, which entails both executing the design process more efficiently and understanding the characteristics of market-leading designs so as to produce engineered products and systems of exceptional levels of quality and customer satisfaction.

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Section: The Evolution Of Design Theory: From Individual Design Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

DTM at 25: Essays on Themes and Future Directions

Braha

Brown

Chakrabarti

et al. 2013

Volume 5: 25th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; ASME 2013 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference

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“…An IDEFØ model is composed of a set of hierarchically linked diagrams, which provide a static descriptive view of a process. Maimon and Braha [33] developed a method of modelling design processes based on the Analysis-Synthesis-Evaluation (ASE) paradigm. The proposed design process model is denoted as tuples containing artifact space, a set of explicit constraints, analyzer, synthesizer and evaluator.…”

Section: An Overview Of Approaches To Process Modelmentioning

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Component-based records: A novel method to record transaction design work

Ding¹,

Giess²,

Goh³

et al. 2009

Advanced Engineering Informatics

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“…Modern man-machine systems are made exceedingly complex by the many human and technological elements involved. The sources of this complexity include dimensional complexity (processes and interactions on many levels), uncertainty, and computational complexity [12], [41], [44]. Even for a smaller size organization facing a mission that consists of a small number of tasks, there can be an enormous number of possible solutions to the organizational design problem (and optimization can yield significant improvements).…”

Section: Organizational Design Processmentioning

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Normative design of organizations. I. Mission planning

Levchuk

Luo

et al. 2002

IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern. A

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This paper presents a design methodology for synthesizing organizations to execute complex missions efficiently. It focuses on devising mission planning strategies to optimally achieve mission goals while optimally utilizing organization's resources. Effective planning is often the key to successful completion of the mission, and conversely, mission failure can often be traced back to poor planning. Details on subsequent phases of the design process to construct the mission-driven human organizations are discussed in a companion paper.

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On the complexity of the design synthesis problem

Cited by 37 publications

References 11 publications

DTM at 25: Essays on Themes and Future Directions

DTM at 25: Essays on Themes and Future Directions

Component-based records: A novel method to record transaction design work

Normative design of organizations. I. Mission planning

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