A linguistic approach to assess the dynamics of design team preference in concept selection

This paper addresses the problem of describing the decision-making process of a committee of engineers based upon their verbalized linguistic appraisals of alternatives. First, we show a way to model an individual’s evaluation of an alternative through natural language based on the Systemic-Function...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dong, Andy, Sarkar, Somwrita, Honda, Tomonori, Yang, Maria
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86158
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2365-1378