Talk:Value-driven design

Put in the first draft of this article. I am a VDD developer, and the article could be more balanced with contributions from traditional systems engineering folk. I apologize to the MIT folk for not providing better coverage of your work -- please fill in and correct as appropriate. I will be trying to put this article under WikiProject Engineering. Arpanetter (talk) 05:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pulling this page together. I would also like to point out some additional background work done by Parunak and Ward in the late 90's. They developed a market-based approach for distributed design teams that is remarkably similar to value based engineering, but does not require a mathematical objective function per se. It also avoids the problem in value-driven design of iterating around multiple design points by evaluating many alternative simultaneously an narrowing down the set of design options over time. A suggested addition to the history page would be something like:

In 1997 Parunak and Ward, under the DARPA MADE program, developed a market-based approach to distributed set-based design optimization that was based on assigning cost and value to design characteristics for trade-off.

Parunak, H.V.D., Ward, A., et.al. A Marketplace of Design Agents for Distributed Concurrent Set-Based Design. Fourth ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research And Applications, Troy, Michigan, August 20-22, 1997.

Parunak, H.V.D., Ward, A.C., and Sauter, J.A., The MarCon Algorithm: A Systematic Market Approach to Distributed Constraint Problems. AI-EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 1999. 13(3): p. 217-234 Jsauter (talk) 17:34, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]