Design Optimization for Sustainable Products Under Users' Preference Changes

Dynamic Preference Aggregation under Preference Changes

We consider the issue of update in settings for preference aggregation under preference changes. While the traditional problem formulation of preference aggregation assumes a fixed set of preference orders and a fixed set of domain elements we investigate how an aggregated preference order has to be updated when the input orders are dynamic. Our analysis shows that for even for some simple aggr...

Shanzhai Products and Sustainable Design

This paper investigates a possible solution to the need for sustainable design through a study of shanzhai products notable for their low price and quality and sometimes, even by their exaggerated design. Their existence reflects a need in China’s post-communist society to provide its population with the kinds of material goods typically associated with capitalist economies in which the advance...

Sustainable Design of Modern Industrial Products

The evaluation of the ability of modern industrial products to meet Environmental Sustainability requirements as efficiently and appropriately as possible has become one of the key-factors in the design and development activities. In the present study several design methods to support designers in order to solve such remarkable problems during the product development have been considered and an...

Design Preference Elicitation Using Efficient Global Optimization

We seek to elicit individual design preferences through usercomputer interaction. During an iteration of the interactive session, the computer presents a set of designs to the user who then picks any preferred designs from the set. The computer learns from this feedback and creates the next set of designs using its accumulated knowledge to minimize a merit function. Under the hypothesis that us...

Collaborative Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Conceptual Design of Complex Products