... Abstract Multi-criteria decision support methods are common in engineering design. These methods typically rely on the specification of importance weights to accomplish trade-offs among competing objectives. Such methods can have difficulties, however: they may not be able to select all...

... Engineering design synthesis Evolutionary computation Trade-offs Fuzzy fitness function In the engineering design process, it is important to know the engineering trade-offs achievable under various design preferences and strategies. In this paper, a family of engineering design trade...

... and proposes the quantification of tainty in the Analytic Hierarchy Process, and to the question posed above. This study is the rger effort to quantify uncertainties in decision ering design. , decision support, confidence intervals, uncer- rlo, trade-offs n c Hierarchy Process, or AHP [Saaty 1980...