Paper Info
Title
Ontology-based executable design decision template representation and reuse.
Abstract
In decision-based design, the principal role of a designer is to make decisions. Decision support is crucial to augment this role. In this paper, we present an ontology that provides decision support from both the "construct" and the "information" perspectives that address the gap that existing research focus on these two perspectives separately and cannot provide effective decision support. The decision support construct in the ontology is the compromise decision support problem (cDSP) that is used to make multiobjective design decisions. The information for decision making is archived as cDSP templates and represented using frame-based ontology for facilitating reuse, consistency maintaining, and rapid execution. In order to facilitate designers' effective reuse of the populated cDSP templates ontology instances, we identified three types of modification that can be made when design consideration evolves. In our earlier work, part of the utilization (consistency checking) of the ontology has been demonstrated through a thin-walled pressure vessel redesign example. In this paper, we comprehensively present the ontology utilization including consistency checking, trade-off analysis, and design space visualization based on the pressure vessel example.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1017/S0890060416000378
AI EDAM-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Compromise Decision Support Problem,Decision-Based Design,Ontology,Reuse,Template
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Programming language,Computer science,Reuse,Executable
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
SP4
0890-0604
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenjun Ming173.91
Yan Yan2145.76
Guoxin Wang394.27
Jitesh H. Panchal45514.62
Chung-Hyun Goh531.09
Janet K. Allen6539.09
Farrokh Mistree76610.11