...Panos Y. Papalambros 12 09 2011 12 09 2011 12 09 2011 25 10 2011 25 10 2011 design engineering large-scale systems I am delighted to present to our JMD community this special issue on design of complex engineered systems. You may recall that in the December...

.... 204 – 218 . 10.1109/TEM.2003.810826 digital printing large-scale systems matrix decomposition project engineering systems engineering system architecture decomposition modularity Architectural decomposition is a key part of complex system management. Architectural...

... 2010 22 06 2011 09 09 2011 09 09 2011 design engineering large-scale systems optimisation The HCS algorithm flowchart The algorithm’s steps are described in more detail as follows: 1 Step 0: Initialize . Set k  = 0 with an initial feasible design x 1,0 , x...

...Panos Y. Papalambros 30 11 2010 30 11 2010 design engineering large-scale systems The Journal of Mechanical Design has a long history of publishing research work on system design. For example, “mechanical systems” was the term used primarily for JMD research papers...

... to the robustness of the linear programming solver. 14 01 2009 18 12 2009 01 03 2010 01 03 2010 computational complexity convergence hierarchical systems large-scale systems linear programming stability Design optimization of complex systems often requires multidisciplinary...

... ( 1 ). aerospace industry CAD large-scale systems mechanical engineering computing multi-agent systems organisational aspects 28 11 2007 02 12 2008 26 01 2009 Prior to beginning the actual design process, agents’ memory matrices—used in the algorithm to dictate...

...-scale systems sensitivity analysis statistical analysis suspensions (mechanical components) uncertain systems vehicles 17 06 2007 12 12 2007 19 05 2008 Wagner , T. C. , 1993 , “ A General Decomposition Methodology for Optimal System Design ,” Ph.D. thesis...

... and multiscale systems; these challenges and opportunities are examined in the context of materials design. 17 10 2005 30 01 2006 design engineering quality management large-scale systems robust design quality multiscale design In engineering design, the concept of robustness...

... and subsystem constraints with a specified probability. design engineering uncertainty handling decision making artificial satellites Monte Carlo methods large-scale systems 23 08 2005 11 01 2006 2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... evaluation and target costing of complex and large-scale systems. The methodology decomposes a system into modules and evaluates each module concept with its target requirements and cost. This method proposes the decomposition of quality function deployment matrices simultaneously for both requirements...

... engineering large-scale systems MIMO systems product design The design of “complex systems” is a difficult, and often lengthy, process that utilizes a significant amount of resources: human, computational, etc. The term complex systems here denotes systems involving many design variables...

.... Rastegar. 01 March 2003 01 December 2003 12 08 2004 large-scale systems mechanical engineering computing automotive components automobiles robots kinematics Methods developed so far for the dynamic analysis of multibody systems can be grouped into two big families...

... advantage in generating surrogate models for large-scale engineering systems. For a large-scale system design problem with a large initial design space, it is very difficult to find a desired approximation of the mapping relationship between...

... search. The optimization of large-scale systems then becomes possible due to information sharing of Pareto optimum solutions for the sub-problems. Sobieski, J., 1982, “A Linear Decomposition Method for Optimization Problems—Blueprint for Development,” NASA Technical Memorandum 83248. Kusiak...

... by the Design Automation Committee for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received April 2000; revised March 2002. Associate Editor: H. Lankarani. 01 April 2000 01 March 2002 26 11 2002 Runge-Kutta methods N-body problems large-scale systems stability...

.... Contributed by the Design Automation Committee for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received Nov. 1999. Associate Editor: A. Diaz. 01 Nov 1999 design engineering decision theory uncertain systems large-scale systems aircraft Robust Design...