Overview
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Hans-Jürgen Sebastian
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Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften Operations Research, Aachen, Germany
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Erik K. Antonsson
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Engineering Design Research Laboratory Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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- Erik K. Antonsson, Kevin N. Otto, Kristin L. Wood
Pages 1-52
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- Walter Eversheim, Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann, Axel Roggatz, Thomas Derichs
Pages 233-250
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- E. H. Manfred Weck, Fritz Klocke, Hanno Schell, Elmar Rüenauver
Pages 251-264
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Back Matter
Pages 277-281
About this book
As understanding of the engineering design and configuration processes grows, the recognition that these processes intrinsically involve imprecise information is also growing. This book collects some of the most recent work in the area of representation and manipulation of imprecise information during the syn thesis of new designs and selection of configurations. These authors all utilize the mathematics of fuzzy sets to represent information that has not-yet been reduced to precise descriptions, and in most cases also use the mathematics of probability to represent more traditional stochastic uncertainties such as un controlled manufacturing variations, etc. These advances form the nucleus of new formal methods to solve design, configuration, and concurrent engineering problems. Hans-Jurgen Sebastian Aachen, Germany Erik K. Antonsson Pasadena, California ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to thank H.-J. Zimmermann for inviting us to write this book. We are also grateful to him for many discussions about this new field Fuzzy Engineering Design which have been very stimulating. We wish to thank our collaborators in particular: B. Funke, M. Tharigen, K. Miiller, S. Jarvinen, T. Goudarzi-Pour, and T. Kriese in Aachen who worked in the PROKON project and who elaborated some of the results presented in the book. We also wish to thank Michael J. Scott for providing invaluable editorial assis tance. Finally, the book would not have been possible without the many contributions and suggestions of Alex Greene of Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1 MODELING IMPRECISION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN Erik K. Antonsson, Ph.D., P.E.
Reviews
`The editors of this book are to be congratulated for assembling a very cohesive collection of works describing both theoretical issues and practical implementation strategies for the difficult field of design and configuration. This book will make a very useful tool to inspire some creative thinking by engineers attempting to produce efficiencies in their own design processes.'
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 12:6 (1998)
Editors and Affiliations
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Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften Operations Research, Aachen, Germany
Hans-Jürgen Sebastian
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Engineering Design Research Laboratory Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Erik K. Antonsson
