Rational Descriptions Decisions And Designs

Author : Myron Tribus
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483146232

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Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs by Myron Tribus Pdf

Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs is a reference for understanding the aspects of rational decision theory in terms of the basic formalism of information theory. The text provides ways to achieve correct engineering design decisions. The book starts with an understanding for the need to apply rationality, as opposed to uncertainty, in design decision making. Inductive logic in computers is explained where the design of the machine and the accompanying software are considered. The text then explains the functional equations and the problems of arriving at a rational description through some mathematical preliminaries. Bayes' equation and rational inference as tools for adjusting probabilities when something new is encountered in earlier probability distributions are explained. The book presents as well a case study concerning the error made in following specifications of spark plugs. The author also explains the Bernoulli trials, where a probability that a better hypothesis than that already adopted may exist. The rational measure of uncertainty and the principle of maximum entropy with sample calculations are included in the text. After considering the probabilities, the decision theory is taken up where engineering design follows. Examples regarding transmitter and voltmeter designs are presented. The book ends by explaining probabilities of success and failure as applied to reliability engineering, that it is a state of knowledge rather than the state of a thing. The text can serve as a textbook for students in technology engineering and design, and as a useful reference for mathematicians, statisticians, and fabrication engineers.

Author : Myron Tribus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9197363308

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Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs by Myron Tribus Pdf

Author : Frédéric Adam,Dorota Kuchta,Stanisław Stanek
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000543100

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Rational Decisions in Organisations by Frédéric Adam,Dorota Kuchta,Stanisław Stanek Pdf

Managers in organisations must make rational decisions. Rational decision making is the opposite of intuitive decision making. It is a strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering facts, identifying options and outcomes, analysing them, considering all the relationships and selecting the decision. Rational decision making requires support: methods and software tools. The identification of the problem to solve needs methods that would measure and evaluate the current situation. Identification and evaluation of options and analysis of the available possibilities involves analysis and optimisation methods. Incorporating intuition into rational decision making needs adequate methods that would translate ideas or observed behaviours into hard data. Communication, observation and opinions recording is hardly possible today without adequate software. Information and data that form the input, intermediate variables and the output must be stored, managed and made accessible in a user-friendly manner. Rational Decisions in Organisations: Theoretical and Practical Aspects presents selected recent developments in the support of the widely understood rational decision making in organisations, illustrated through case studies. The book shows not only the variety of perspectives involved in decision making, but also the variety of domains where rational decision support systems are needed. The case studies present decision making by medical doctors, students and managers of various universities, IT project teams, construction companies, banks and small and large manufacturing companies. Covering the richness of relationships in which the decisions should and must be taken, the book illustrates how modern organisations operate in chains and networks; they have multiple responsibilities, including social, legal, business and ethical duties. Nowadays, managers in organisations can make transparent decisions and consider a multitude of stakeholders and their diverse features, incorporating diverse criteria, using multiple types and drivers of information and decision-making patterns, and referring to numerous lessons learned. As the book makes clear, the marriage of theoretical ideas with the possibilities offered by technology can make the decisions in organisations more rational and, at the same time, more human.

Author : Gerhard Pahl,W. Beitz,Jörg Feldhusen,Karl-Heinrich Grote
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781846283185

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Engineering Design by Gerhard Pahl,W. Beitz,Jörg Feldhusen,Karl-Heinrich Grote Pdf

This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into distinct steps, each with its own working methods. The book provides more examples of product development; it also tightens the scientific bases of its design ideas with new solution fields in composite components, building methods, mechatronics and adaptronics. The economics of design and development are covered and electronic design process technology integrated into its methods. The book is sharply written and well-illustrated.

Author : Hans-Jürgen Sebastian,Erik K. Antonsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461314592

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Fuzzy Sets in Engineering Design and Configuration by Hans-Jürgen Sebastian,Erik K. Antonsson Pdf

As understanding of the engineering design and configuration processes grows, the recognition that these processes intrinsically involve imprecise information is also growing. This book collects some of the most recent work in the area of representation and manipulation of imprecise information during the syn thesis of new designs and selection of configurations. These authors all utilize the mathematics of fuzzy sets to represent information that has not-yet been reduced to precise descriptions, and in most cases also use the mathematics of probability to represent more traditional stochastic uncertainties such as un controlled manufacturing variations, etc. These advances form the nucleus of new formal methods to solve design, configuration, and concurrent engineering problems. Hans-Jurgen Sebastian Aachen, Germany Erik K. Antonsson Pasadena, California ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to thank H.-J. Zimmermann for inviting us to write this book. We are also grateful to him for many discussions about this new field Fuzzy Engineering Design which have been very stimulating. We wish to thank our collaborators in particular: B. Funke, M. Tharigen, K. Miiller, S. Jarvinen, T. Goudarzi-Pour, and T. Kriese in Aachen who worked in the PROKON project and who elaborated some of the results presented in the book. We also wish to thank Michael J. Scott for providing invaluable editorial assis tance. Finally, the book would not have been possible without the many contributions and suggestions of Alex Greene of Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1 MODELING IMPRECISION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN Erik K. Antonsson, Ph.D., P.E.

Author : Anthony Debons,Arvid G. Larson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400934771

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Information Science in Action: System Design by Anthony Debons,Arvid G. Larson Pdf

In August 1978, one hundred or so scholars from several countries around the world met in Crete, Greece to discuss the progress made in designing information systems and the relation of information science to this activity. This was the Third Advanced Study Institute supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium. The first Institute was conducted in 1972 and held in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. The results of this Institute were published by Marcel Dekker and titled Information Sc. ience: Search for Identity. The'second Institute was held at the College of Librarianship, Aberystwyth, Wales in the summer of 1974. The proceedings were published by Noordhoff International Publishing, Leyden, The Netherlands, entitled Perspectives of Information Science edited by A. Debons and Hilliam Cameron. The three institutes that were conducted shared a common purpose, namely, to assess the state of affairs of information science and to share this assessment with inter national community. Information science can be said to have emerged during the past two, three decades in response to the significant increase in data-knowledge processing technology, the growth of knowledge as the result of these trends and the increase in problem solving, decision making complexity that faced all institutions at all levels throughout the world. Information systems, for many reasons, remain as an abstraction. Nevertheless, considerable funds and human efforts are being expended on them. Thus, such systems are of vital concerns to both scientists and technologists who are involved in them.

Author : Robert M. Stark,Robert L. Nicholls
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486438986

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Mathematical Foundations for Design by Robert M. Stark,Robert L. Nicholls Pdf

Text develops typical mathematical techniques of operations research and systems engineering and applies them to design and operation of civil engineering systems. Solutions to selected problems; solution guide available upon request. 1972 edition.

Author : Erik Baark,Uno Svedin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781349090877

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Man, Nature and Technology by Erik Baark,Uno Svedin Pdf

Author : Harold E. Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015086414060

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Simplified Energy Design Economics by Harold E. Marshall Pdf

Author : Dan Zhang,Bin Wei
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351788601

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Robotics and Mechatronics for Agriculture by Dan Zhang,Bin Wei Pdf

The aim of the book is to introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of robotics, mechatronics and automation in agriculture in order to summarize and review the improvements in the methodologies in agricultural robotics. Advances made in the past decades are described, including robotics for agriculture, mechatronics for agriculture, kinematics, dynamics and control analysis of agricultural robotics, and a wide range of topics in the field of robotics, mechatronics and automation for agricultural applications.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Prioritization and Decision Making in the Department of Energy Office of Science and Technology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309063470

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Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Prioritization and Decision Making in the Department of Energy Office of Science and Technology Pdf

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Author : Wynn C. Stirling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107011748

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Theory of Conditional Games by Wynn C. Stirling Pdf

This book describes conditional games, a form of game theory that accommodates multiple stakeholder decision-making scenarios where cooperation and negotiation are significant issues and where notions of concordant group behavior are important. The book extends the concept of a preference ordering that permits stakeholders to modulate their preferences as functions of the preferences of others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Mechanics, Applied
ISBN : UCAL:C2682439

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Applied Mechanics Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lotfi A. Zadeh,King-Sun Fu,Kokichi Tanaka
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781483265919

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Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications to Cognitive and Decision Processes by Lotfi A. Zadeh,King-Sun Fu,Kokichi Tanaka Pdf

Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications to Cognitive and Decision Processes contains the proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Seminar on Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications, held at the University of California in Berkeley, California, on July 1-4, 1974. The seminar provided a forum for discussing a broad spectrum of topics related to the theory of fuzzy sets, ranging from its mathematical aspects to applications in human cognition, communication, decision making, and engineering systems analysis. Comprised of 19 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the calculus of fuzzy restrictions, followed by a discussion on fuzzy programs and their execution. Subsequent chapters focus on fuzzy relations, fuzzy graphs, and their applications to clustering analysis; risk and decision making in a fuzzy environment; fractionally fuzzy grammars and their application to pattern recognition; and applications of fuzzy sets in psychology. An approach to pattern recognition and associative memories using fuzzy logic is also described. This monograph will be of interest to students and practitioners in the fields of computer science, engineering, psychology, and applied mathematics.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Energy development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119539489

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Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1993 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf