Fuzzy Sets in Engineering Design and Configuration
Editors: Sebastian, Hans-Jürgen, Antonsson, Erik K. (Eds.)
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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.
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`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)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Modeling Imprecision in Engineering Design
Pages 1-52
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Multiple Objective Design Optimization
Pages 53-88
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Intelligent Systems for Configuration Problems
Pages 89-232
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Management of Uncertain Information in Simultaneous Engineering
Pages 233-250
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Application of the Fuzzy AHP Method for Assessing Alternative Production Cycles
Pages 251-264
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Fuzzy Sets in Engineering Design and Configuration
- Editors
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- Hans-Jürgen Sebastian
- Erik K. Antonsson
- Series Title
- International Series in Intelligent Technologies
- Series Volume
- 9
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4613-1459-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4613-1459-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-9802-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4612-8636-3
- Series ISSN
- 1382-3434
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 282
- Topics