TY - GEN
T1 - Decision-focussed resource modelling for design decision support
AU - Liu, Shaofeng
AU - Duffy, Alex
AU - Whitfield, Robert Ian
AU - Boyle, Iain
AU - Wang, Wenjuan
AU - Mohamed, Khaled
PY - 2009/8/24
Y1 - 2009/8/24
N2 - Resource management including resource allocation, levelling, configuration and monitoring has been recognised as critical to design decision making. It has received increasing research interests in recent years. Different definitions, models and systems have been developed and published in literature. One common issue with existing research is that the resource modelling has focussed on the information view of resources. A few acknowledged the importance of resource capability to design management, but none has addressed the evaluation analysis of resource fitness to effectively support design decisions. This paper proposes a decision-focused resource model framework that addresses the combination of resource evaluation with resource information from multiple perspectives. A resource management system constructed on the resource model framework can provide functions for design engineers to efficiently search and retrieve the best fit resources (based on the evaluation results) to meet decision requirements. Thus, the system has the potential to provide improved decision making performance compared with existing resource management systems.
AB - Resource management including resource allocation, levelling, configuration and monitoring has been recognised as critical to design decision making. It has received increasing research interests in recent years. Different definitions, models and systems have been developed and published in literature. One common issue with existing research is that the resource modelling has focussed on the information view of resources. A few acknowledged the importance of resource capability to design management, but none has addressed the evaluation analysis of resource fitness to effectively support design decisions. This paper proposes a decision-focused resource model framework that addresses the combination of resource evaluation with resource information from multiple perspectives. A resource management system constructed on the resource model framework can provide functions for design engineers to efficiently search and retrieve the best fit resources (based on the evaluation results) to meet decision requirements. Thus, the system has the potential to provide improved decision making performance compared with existing resource management systems.
KW - Decision-based design
KW - Design decision support
KW - EJB
KW - Resource model framework
KW - UML
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859225212&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference proceedings published in a book
AN - SCOPUS:84859225212
SN - 9781904670070
T3 - DS 58-3: Proceedings of ICED 09, the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design
SP - 169
EP - 180
BT - DS 58-3
T2 - 17th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 09
Y2 - 24 August 2009 through 27 August 2009
ER -