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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"design decision support"”.
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Life cycle cost modelling as an aircraft design decision support tool
… analysis is performed to identify the important design parameters and uncertainty in the model. The acquisition cost model developed has the capability to estimate the costs of aircraft structures manufactured using metal-based materials as well as non-metal-based materials.<br/>The discrete …
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Healthy by Design: Development of a Biophilia Design Decision Support Framework
… acceptance and scientific validity of wellness design concepts, do architects not use this beneficial concept regularly–especially when designing isolated workspaces? This qualitative research explores architecture's current design decision process to better understand this design phenomenon, …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… achieving a self-sufficient urban sustainable design solution albeit with the understanding that such a benchmark may never be attained by urban designers fully. The past decade has seen a motivation to develop, apply and assess sustainable solutions through a comprehensive method for designing …
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A Decision Support System for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Cost Estimation
… by their usage of company resources. Better designs may also be produced if designers could evaluate the cost implications of their choices early in the design process. This research describes a methodology whereby companies can improve product cost estimation at the conceptual design phase, …
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A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams
It is generally accepted that decisions made in early design phases significantly impact the quality of a built project. However, much of the information necessary to assess the validity of early design decisions is not available until later in a project’s lifecycle. The impact of early design …
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Design of a goal ontology for medical decision-support
… models of medical knowledge and reasoning to design decision-support systems. Until now, these efforts have focused primarily on representing content of clinical guidelines and their logical structure. The present study aims to develop a computable representation of health-care providers' …
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An integrated approach to environmentally conscious design and manufacturing
… develop an approach for the simultaneous green design of products and associated manufacturing processes including demanufacturing concerns. We propose a generic approach called Integrated Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing (IECDM) which can be applied to address problems in the …
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An Approach to Decision Support for Strategic Redesign
… little attention to the fact that most design activities are actually more like redesign. These activities are characterized by an attempt to leverage experience, knowledge, and the capital that a company has already invested into existing engineering systems. In this dissertation, it is …
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A Framework for Agile Collaboration in Engineering
Often, design problems are strongly coupled and their concurrent resolution by interacting (though decentralized) stakeholders is required. The ensuing interactions are characterized predominantly by degree of interdependence and level of cooperation. Since tradeoffs, made within and among …