The increasing complexity of engineering systems has sparked rising interest in
multidisciplinary optimization (MDO). This paper surveys recent publications in the field of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are widely accepted as a technology offering an alternative
way to tackle complex and dynamic problems in urban studies. The goal of this article is a …

To gain competitive leverage, firms that design and develop complex products seek to
increase the efficiency and predictability of their development processes. Process …

Current planning practice takes little account of the interdisciplinary, iterative nature of the
building design process. This leads to a compromised design process containing inevitable …

In concurrent engineering, project tasks generally involve the establishment of
multifunctional teams in which team members from different functional departments interact …

By the mid-1990s, the importance of early introduction of new products to both market share
and profitability became fully understood. Thus, reducing product time-to-market became an …

Cycle time reduction is an important aspect of integrated product and process development
(IPPD). This paper outlines some of the challenges that impede efforts to reduce cycle time …

This paper presents a formal two-phase decomposition method for complex design
problems that are represented in an attribute-component incidence matrix. Unlike the …

Many companies are looking for new tools and techniques to aid a design manager in
making decisions that can reduce the time and cost of a design cycle. One tool is the Design …

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been extensively used as a means for performing global
optimization in a simple yet reliable manner. However, in some realistic engineering design …