An Ontology for Reusable and Executable Decision TemplatesSource: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering:;2017:;volume( 017 ):;issue: 003::page 31008Author:Ming, Zhenjun
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Wang, Guoxin
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Yan, Yan
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Dal Santo, Joseph
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Allen, Janet K.
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Mistree, Farrokh
DOI: 10.1115/1.4034436Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Engineering design is increasingly recognized as a decision making process. Providing decision support is crucial to augment designers' decision-making capability in this process. In this paper, we present a template-based ontological method that integrates the decision-making mechanism with problem-specific information; thus, it can provide design decision support from both the “construct” and the “information” perspectives. The “construct,” namely, decision-making mechanism, is the utility-based Decision Support Problem (u-sDSP), which is a rigorous mathematical model that facilitates designers making multi-attribute selection decisions under uncertainty, while the information for decision making is archived as u-sDSP templates and represented using frame-based ontology to facilitate reuse, execution, and consistency-maintaining. This paper is an extension of our earlier work on the ontological modeling of the compromise decisions. The unique advantage of this ontology is that it captures both the declarative and procedural knowledge of selection decisions and represents them separately, thus facilitating designers reusing, executing previous documented decision knowledge to effect new decisions. The efficacy of ontology is demonstrated using a rapid prototyping (RP) resource selection example.
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contributor author | Ming, Zhenjun | |
contributor author | Wang, Guoxin | |
contributor author | Yan, Yan | |
contributor author | Dal Santo, Joseph | |
contributor author | Allen, Janet K. | |
contributor author | Mistree, Farrokh | |
date accessioned | 2017-11-25T07:20:35Z | |
date available | 2017-11-25T07:20:35Z | |
date copyright | 2017/16/2 | |
date issued | 2017 | |
identifier issn | 1530-9827 | |
identifier other | jcise_017_03_031008.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://138.201.223.254:8080/yetl1/handle/yetl/4236549 | |
description abstract | Engineering design is increasingly recognized as a decision making process. Providing decision support is crucial to augment designers' decision-making capability in this process. In this paper, we present a template-based ontological method that integrates the decision-making mechanism with problem-specific information; thus, it can provide design decision support from both the “construct” and the “information” perspectives. The “construct,” namely, decision-making mechanism, is the utility-based Decision Support Problem (u-sDSP), which is a rigorous mathematical model that facilitates designers making multi-attribute selection decisions under uncertainty, while the information for decision making is archived as u-sDSP templates and represented using frame-based ontology to facilitate reuse, execution, and consistency-maintaining. This paper is an extension of our earlier work on the ontological modeling of the compromise decisions. The unique advantage of this ontology is that it captures both the declarative and procedural knowledge of selection decisions and represents them separately, thus facilitating designers reusing, executing previous documented decision knowledge to effect new decisions. The efficacy of ontology is demonstrated using a rapid prototyping (RP) resource selection example. | |
publisher | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | |
title | An Ontology for Reusable and Executable Decision Templates | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 17 | |
journal issue | 3 | |
journal title | Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering | |
identifier doi | 10.1115/1.4034436 | |
journal fristpage | 31008 | |
journal lastpage | 031008-13 | |
tree | Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering:;2017:;volume( 017 ):;issue: 003 | |
contenttype | Fulltext |