We believe that the efficiency and effectiveness of human designers can be improved by making available tools that can be used to help negotiate solutions to open or unstructured parts of the process ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 49, No. 7, Intelligent Management Systems in Operations (Jul., 1998), pp. 758-765 (8 pages) Concurrent Engineering (CE) is a systematic approach ...

Set-based design (SBD) is a methodology that systematically explores a broad design space by concurrently considering multiple design alternatives before progressively narrowing the choices. This ...

The advent of the virtual processor model (VPM) has led to dramatic improvements in the capabilities of modeling systems. In a future dominated by systems, there will ...

To help his students conceptualize the method of concurrent materials design, one of 10 priority research areas outlined in Northwestern Engineering’s new strategic vision, the McCormick School of ...