Complexity Metrics in Engineering Design Managing the Structure of Design Processes /

• Main Authors: Kreimeyer, Matthias (Author), Lindemann, Udo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer-aided engineering.; Complexity, Computational.; Engineering design.; Complexity.; Engineering Design.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; IT in Business.

This book presents the results of several years’ research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling. The 52 complexity metrics that are presented show different facets of how complexity takes shape in design processes.  The metrics are...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Focus of this research
• The foundations of complexity metrics
• Concept of a structural measurement system for engineering design processes
• Modeling the structure of engineering design processes
• Complexity Metrics for Design Processes
• The S-GQM framework to select metrics
• Industrial application of metrics
• Conclusions and outlook
• References
• Appendix
• Keyword index.