Multiple Criteria Decision Support in Engineering Design

1. Introduction. - 1. 1 What is Multiple Criteria Decision Making. - 1. 2 Relevance of MCDM to Engineering Design. - 1. 3 Design Selection vs Design Synthesis. - 1. 4 Outline of the Book. - 2. MCDM and The Nature of Decision Making in Design. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 Pareto Optimality: What are the Options?. - 2. 3 MCDM Methods and Some Key Terminology. - 2. 4 Concluding Comments. - 3. Multiple Attribute Decision Making. - 3. 1 Problem Formulations and Method Classification. - 3. 2 Techniques for Weight Assignment. - 3. 3 Typical MADM Methods and Applications. - 3. 4 A Hierarchical Evaluation Process. - 3. 5 Concluding Comments. - 4. Multiple Objective Decision Making. - 4. 1 Multiobjective Optimisation and Method Classification. - 4. 2 Techniques for Single-Objective Optimisation. - 4. 3 Typical MODM Methods. - 4. 4 Multiobjective Ship Design. - 4. 5 Concluding Comments. - 5. Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Genetic Algorithms. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 The Mechanics of the Simple Genetic Algorithm. - 5. 3 Multiple Criteria Genetic Algorithms. - 5. 4 The Multiple Criteria Genetic Algorithm (MCGA): A Summary. - 5. 5 A Numerical Example. - 5. 6 An MCGA Schedule for a Generalised Job Shop. - 5. 7 Concluding Comments. - 6. An Integrated Multiple Criteria Decision Support System. - 6. 1 System Structure and Method Selection. - 6. 2 Data Base and Model Base. - 6. 3 A User Interface and Interactive Decision Making. - 6. 4 Application of IMC-DSS. - 6. 5 Concluding Comments. - 7. Past Present and the Future. - 7. 1 Introduction. - 7. 2 Case Studies. - 7. 3 Concluding Comments. - References. - Topic Index. Language: English