"Computing with Words" to Support Multi-criteria Decision-making during Conceptual Design

Abstract

"Computing with Words" (CW) is a methodology that has been developed to replicate the process of human cogitation. the objects of computation in CW are propositions drawn from natural language. This paper presents a CW based approach for recreating the human decision-making process during the early design phases when the available information is mostly qualitative in nature and is too imprecise to justify computation with numbers. the novel architecture assessment approach presented can be used for quantitatively evaluating potential design concepts using linguistic assesments elicited from the stakeholders. the proposed methodology provides systems engineers with the capability to exploit a system's tolerance for imprecision, to design robust, flexible, and low cost solutions. © 2010 World Scientific Publishing Company.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Conceptual design; Fuzzy set theory; Multi-criteria decision-making

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1793-9674; 1793-9666

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 World Scientific Publishing, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jun 2010

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