Fuzzy Relational Modeling of Cost and Affordability for Advanced Technology Manufacturing Environment

摘要

Relational representation of knowledge makes it possible to perform all thecomputations and decision making in a uniform relational way by means ofspecial relational compositions called triangle and square products. In thispaper some applications in manufacturing related to cost analysis aredescribed. Testing fuzzy relational structures for various relationalproperties allows us to discover dependencies, hierarchies, similarities, andequivalences of the attributes characterizing technological processes andmanufactured artifacts in their relationship to costs and performance. A brief overview of mathematical aspects of BK-relational products is givenin Appendix 1 together with further references in the literature.