On Theoretically Hard Limitations in Holistic Design Evaluation

The paper presents a theoretical framework which allows to discuss and answer several important questions of holistic design evaluation. The introduced evaluation model is used to discuss the most important holistic design evaluation questions in their physical limit case. The main questions address and include answers to the problem of existence of a decomposition of an overall holistic design evaluation into its constituting partial evaluation criteria, to the inverse problem of aggregation as well as to the problem of evaluation criteria completeness, uniqueness and consistency. The theory developed is exemplified using the example of a bridge robustness evaluation. 1 Motivation