Abstract: This paper presents a mathematical model for quantifying uncertainty of a discrete design solution and to monitor it through the design process. In the presented entropic view, uncertainty is ...

Abstract: In this paper, two approaches for computing the topological information content of function models in mechanical engineering design are developed and compared. Previously, a metric for computing ...

Abstract: In this research, the interpretability of function structures is evaluated through a user study in which participants are given function structures and asked to identify the product that is ...