Engineering design decisions inherently are made under risk and uncertainty. The
characterization of this uncertainty is an essential step in the decision process. In this paper …

Both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties exist in engineering applications. Aleatory
uncertainty (objective or stochastic uncertainty) describes the inherent variation associated …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a methodology to design a supply
chain with a view to achieve a strategic fit between competitive and supply chain strategies …

Since engineering design requires decision making under uncertainty, the degree to which
good decisions can be made depends upon the degree to which the decision maker has …

Modeling uncertainty through probabilistic representation in engineering design is common
and important to decision making that considers risk. However, representations of …

The engineering design community recognizes that an essential part of the design process
is decision making. Each decision consists of two main phases---problem formulation and …

From the decision-based design perspective, decision making is the critical element of the
design process. All practical decision making occurs under some degree of uncertainty …

In a product design and development process, a designer faces a problem to decide
functional requirement (FR) target values. That decision is made under a risk since it is …

There is growing acceptance in the design community that two types of uncertainty exist:
inherent variability and uncertainty that results from a lack of knowledge, which variously is …

This paper builds on Allen Ward's set-based design method in which the focus is on
incrementally eliminating design alternatives until a small set of satisficing solutions …