An Ontology for Representing Knowledge of Decision Interactions in Decision-Based Design

摘要

Design processes for complex engineered systems are inherently complex due to the dependencies among subsystems at the same level and between levels of a partitioned hierarchy. In decision-based design, this results in interactions among sets of design decisions. Representing and capturing the knowledge related to the decision interactions is critical for designing decision-based design processes. Two key challenges in modeling the interactions are: