Prestructuring model for system-arrangement problems

A computer-supported procedure is presented for using requirement information to prestructure compotent relationships for a general class of arrangement problems. The procedure generalizes and extends the range of admissable requirement information and reduces the risk of local optimality in arrange...

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Published in:Design studies 1981-04, Vol.2 (2), p.67-76
Main Authors: Sato, Keiichi, Owen, Charles L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:A computer-supported procedure is presented for using requirement information to prestructure compotent relationships for a general class of arrangement problems. The procedure generalizes and extends the range of admissable requirement information and reduces the risk of local optimality in arrangement. Three categories of requirement information are identified: flow factors, explicit requirements and implicit requirements. These three are integrated and used to organize the components to be arranged into a ‘normative structure’ in the form of a semi-lattice hierarchy. The normative structure is an approximation of the spatial or temporal arrangement to be generated in real space.
ISSN:0142-694X
1872-6909
DOI:10.1016/0142-694X(81)90003-X