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Ontology-based executable design decision template representation and reuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2016

Zhenjun Ming ,
Yan Yan ,
Guoxin Wang ,
Jitesh H. Panchal ,
Chung-Hyun Goh ,
Janet K. Allen  and
Farrokh Mistree
Zhenjun Ming
Affiliation:
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Yan Yan
Affiliation:
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Guoxin Wang
Affiliation:
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Jitesh H. Panchal
Affiliation:
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Chung-Hyun Goh
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA
Janet K. Allen*
Affiliation:
School of Industrial and System Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Farrokh Mistree
Affiliation:
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
*
Reprint requests to: Janet K. Allen, School of Industrial and System Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 202 West Boyd Street, Suite 116, Norman, OK 73019, USA. E-mail: janet.allen@ou.edu
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Abstract

In decision-based design, the principal role of a designer is to make decisions. Decision support is crucial to augment this role. In this paper, we present an ontology that provides decision support from both the “construct” and the “information” perspectives that address the gap that existing research focus on these two perspectives separately and cannot provide effective decision support. The decision support construct in the ontology is the compromise decision support problem (cDSP) that is used to make multiobjective design decisions. The information for decision making is archived as cDSP templates and represented using frame-based ontology for facilitating reuse, consistency maintaining, and rapid execution. In order to facilitate designers’ effective reuse of the populated cDSP templates ontology instances, we identified three types of modification that can be made when design consideration evolves. In our earlier work, part of the utilization (consistency checking) of the ontology has been demonstrated through a thin-walled pressure vessel redesign example. In this paper, we comprehensively present the ontology utilization including consistency checking, trade-off analysis, and design space visualization based on the pressure vessel example.

Keywords

Compromise Decision Support ProblemDecision-Based DesignOntologyReuseTemplate
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Special Issue Articles
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AI EDAM , Volume 30 , Special Issue 4: Engineering Design Informatics , November 2016 , pp. 390 - 405
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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