Abstract: This paper validates that a previously published formal representation of function structure graphs actually supports the reasoning that motivated its development in the first place. In doing so, it presents the algorithms ...

Abstract: The paper presents a formal representation for modeling function structure graphs in a consistent, grammatically controlled manner, and for performing conservationbased formal reasoning on those models. The representation ...

Abstract: This article describes the theory behind constraint hypergraphs: a novel modeling framework that can be used to universally represent and simulate complex systems. Multi-domain system models are traditionally compiled from ...

Abstract: Assembly time estimation is traditionally a timeintensive manual process that requires detailed geometric and process information, which is often subjective and qualitative in nature. As a result, assembly time estimation ...