The recent advancement of solid freeform fabrication, design techniques and fundamental understanding of material properties in functionally graded materials has made it possible ...
Product customization has been recognized as an effective means to implement mass customization. This paper focuses on the customizability issue of design, that is, to evaluate th...
It is now generally accepted that separating software architecture into multiple views can help in reducing complexity and in making sound decisions about design trade-offs. Our f...
Robert L. Nord, Daniel J. Paulish, Dilip Soni, Chr...
UML2 and SysML try to adopt techniques known from software development to systems engineering. However, the focus has been put on modeling aspects until now and quantitative perfo...
Design diversity has long been used to protect redundant systems against common-mode failures. The conventional notion of diversity relies on "independent" generation of...
Subhasish Mitra, Nirmal R. Saxena, Edward J. McClu...