Provides examples of effective application of decision-based design; theory and practice in decision-based design; insights on handling preferences, handling uncertainty, distributed design, demand modeling, validation, and other issues; and end-of-chapter exercise problems to facilitate learning Content: The need for design theory research / Delcie R. Durham -- The open workshop on decision-based design / Wei Chen, Kemper E. Lewis, and Linda C. Schmidit -- Utility function fundamentals / Deborah L. Thurston -- Normative decision analysis in engineering design / Sundar Krishnamurty -- Fundamentals and implications of decision-making / Donald G. Saari -- Preference modeling in engineering design / Jonathan Barzilai -- Stimulating creative design alternatives using customer values / Ralph L. Keeney -- Generating design alternatives across abstraction levels / William H. Wood and Hui Dong -- Fundamentals of economic demand modeling: lessons from travel demand analysis / Kenneth A. Small -- Discrete choice demand modeling for decision-based design / Henk Jan Wassenaar, Deepak Kumar, and Wei Chen -- The role of demand modeling in product planning / H.E. Cook -- Multi-attribute utility analysis of conflicting preferences / Deborah L. Thurston -- On the legitimacy of pairwise comparisons / Clive L. Dym, William H. Wood, and Michael J. Scott -- Multi-attribute decision-making using hypothetical equivalents and inequivalents / Tung-King See, Ashwin Gurnani, and Kemper Lewis -- Multiobjective decision-making using physical programming / Achille Messac -- Decision-based collaborative optimization of multidisciplinary systems / John E. Renaud and Xiaoyu (Stacey) Gu -- A designer's view to economics and finance / Panos Y. Papalambros and Panayotis Georgiopoulos -- Multilevel optimization for enterprise-driven decision-based product design / Deepak K.D. Kumar, Wei Chen, and Harrison M. Kim -- A decision-based perspective on the vehicle development process / Joseph A. Donndelinger -- Product development and decision production systems / Jeffrey W. Herrmann and Linda C. Schmidt -- Game theory in decision-making / Charalambos. D. Aliprantis and Subir K. Chakrabarti -- Analysis of negotiation protocols for distributed design / Timothy Middelkoop, David L. Pepyne, and Abhijit Deshmukh -- The dynamics of decentralized design processes: the issue of convergence and its impact on decision-making / Vincent Chanron and Kemper E. Lewis -- Value aggregation for collaborative design decision-making / Yan Jin and Mohammad Reza Danesh -- The validation square: how does one verify and validate a design method? / Carolyn C. Seepersad [and others] -- Model-based validation of design methods / Dan Frey and Xiang Li -- Development and use of design method validation criteria / Andrew Olewnik and Kemper E. Lewis.
