1. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences An Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design Wei Chen Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607 Kemper Lewis Assistant Professor Universit y at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 Linda Schmidt Assistant Professor University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-3035

2. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Open Workshop Participation Website http://dbd.eng.buffalo.edu/  Progress of workshop  Updates from face-to-face meetings  Registration for listserve and mailing list  Interactive submission boards  Deliverables, DBD Links  Newsletter Listserve dbd-list@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu Register via web site

3. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Open Workshop Format An Open Workshop is always in session, always accessible! –convened November, 1996 –ends November, 2001 Workshop dialogue via website, e-mail, and list service Quarterly newsletter to registrants 2-3 Supporting meetings annually

4. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Open Workshop Goals Synthesize a sound theory of Decision-Based Design. Determine the proper role of decision-making in design. Develop consensus on defining the DBD perspective. Establish the role of DBD within design theory and methodology research. Build a repository of foundational materials (e.g., a lexicon, case studies, references) that illustrate design as decision-making. Establish a useful relationship between DBD and other theories (e.g., physics, mathematics, information and management science) Transfer DBD decision support methods and tools into industry.

5. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences What is the DBD Perspective? Decision-making is a vital part of design. DBD practitioners view design as a decision-making process maximizes the value of a designed artifact to both the producer and the end-user. Design occurs in an environment characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty and risk, complicating the decision-making process. DBD processes emphasize establishing value systems to rank expected outcomes of design decisions and incorporating uncertainty and risk handling in predicting the expected outcomes.

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11. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Familiar Features Online Registration Open Research Questions Position Papers Reading List Lexicon Discussion Area

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18. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Journal of EVCA, Volume 3, Numbers 2-3 (2000) Now Available Last Accomplishment

19. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Next Accomplishment: Having a Productive 10 th Meeting!

20. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences 10th Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design Panel Session on The Role of Decision Analysis in Engineering Design September 10, 2000 Baltimore, MD

21. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Panelists Yan Jin University of Southern Carifornia Sundar Krishnamurty University of Massachusetts, Amherst David Kazmar University of Massachusetts, Amherst John Renaud University of Notre Dame

22. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Decision Analysis Decision analysis is a structured way of thinking about how the action taken in the current decision would lead to a result. Decision analysis constructs models, logical and perhaps even mathematical representations that allow the decision maker to estimate the possible implications of each course of action and better understand the relationship between the actions and the objectives.

23. 10th Meeting Open Workshop, 9/10/2000. ASME DETC/CIE Conferences Questions to be Addressed Should all design activities, including those that might be intuitive (nonjudgemental), e.g., brainstorming for the generation of design alternatives, be constructed under a decision theory framework? Is Multiattribute Utility Analysis a useful method in Engineering Design? What is your approach to engineering decision making that involves multiple attributes and multiple decision makers? What are the top research issues for developing DBD approaches to design? Intuitive - knowing or perceiving without an evident and rational process.

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