A New Method for Making Design Decisions: Decision Topologies

摘要: This paper shows how reliability block diagrams can be used as a decision making tool. The premise behind the idea is that classical analysis (DA), while very powerful, does not provide much tractability in assessing utility functions and their use decisions. Our recent work has shown diagram which visual representation of systems, to describe situation. In making, we called these topologies (DTs). We show DTs make engineering decisions just DA. also proves limit, using entirely consistent with DA for both single attribute multi-attribute cases. main advantages proposed method are (1) it provides situation, (2) accommodates continuous binary attributes together, well tradeoff between them. details theoretical basis highlights its benefits. An example demonstrate practice.