Title
PDSIDES—A Knowledge-Based Platform for Decision Support in the Design of Engineering Systems
Abstract
We hypothesize that by providing decision support for designers we can speed up the design process and facilitate the creation of quality cost-effective designs. One of the challenges in providing design decision support is that the decision workflows embody various degrees of complexity due to the inherent complexity embodied in engineering systems. To tackle this, we propose a knowledge-based Platform for Decision Support in the Design of Engineering Systems (PDSIDES). PDSIDES is built on our earlier works that are anchored in modeling decision-related knowledge with templates using ontologies to facilitate execution and reuse. In this paper, we extend the ontological decision templates to a computational platform that provides knowledge-based decision support for three types of users, namely, template creators, template editors, and template implementers, in original design, adaptive design, and variant design, respectively. The efficacy of PDSIDES is demonstrated using a hot rod rolling system (HRRS) design example.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1115/1.4040461
JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
platform,engineering design,knowledge,decision making,decision support problem,ontology
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1530-9827
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenjun Ming173.91
Anand Balu Nellippallil221.73
Yan Yan3145.76
Guoxin Wang488.38
Chung-Hyun Goh531.09
Janet K. Allen6539.09
Farrokh Mistree76610.11