Exploration of design spaces is an important step in decision-based design. In consumer
product development, precise design specifications are not known at the beginning of the …

Engineering design tasks require designers to continually compare, weigh, and choose
among many complex alternatives. The quality of these selection decisions directly impacts …

Designers make process-level decisions to (i) select designs for performance evaluation,(ii)
select information source, and (iii) decide whether to stop design exploration. These …

Abstract In Design by Shopping, designers explore the design space to gain an insight into
trades, and feasible and impractical solutions, as well as to learn about alternatives before …

There has been a significant amount of research done on the statistical properties of various
discrete choice approaches. These studies tend to devote the bulk of their attention to …

During the formative stage of the design cycle, teams engage in a variety of tasks to arrive at
a design, including selecting among design alternatives. A key notion in design alternative …

Design is a sequential decision process that increases the detail of modeling and analysis
while simultaneously decreasing the space of alternatives considered. In a decision …

Engineering design involves information acquisition decisions such as selecting designs in
the design space for testing, selecting information sources, and deciding when to stop …

Design space exploration, that is an embodiment of a paradigm Design by Shopping, refers
to the systematic activity of discovery and evaluation of the elements in the design space in …

In this paper we present a utility-based method for selection in engineering design. The
Utility-Based Selection DSP supports a designer in making selection decisions involving …