Computational Intelligence Techniques for New Product Design [electronic resource] / by Kit Yan Chan, C.K. Kwong, Tharam S. Dillon.

From the content: Integrated product design -- Computational intelligence technologies for product design -- Determination of importance of customer requirements using the fuzzy AHP method -- An enhanced fuzzy AHP method with extend analys is for determining importance of customer requirements -- Development of product design models using classical evolutionary programming -- Development of product design models using a fuzzy regression based genetic programming.

Applying computational intelligence for product design is a fast-growing and promising research area in computer sciences and industrial engineering. However, there is currently a lack of books, which discuss this research area. This book discusses a wide range of computational intelligence techniques for implementation on product design. It covers common issues on product design from identification of customer requirements in product design, determination of importance of customer requirements, determination of optimal design attributes, relating design attributes and customer satisfaction, integration of marketing aspects into product design, affective product design, to quality control of new products. Approaches for refinement of computational intelligence are discussed, in order to address different issues on product design. Cases studies of product design in terms of development of real-world new products are included, in order to illustrate the design procedures, as well as the effectiveness of the computational intelligence based approaches to product design. This book covers the state-of-art of computational intelligence methods for product design, which provides a clear picture to post-graduate students in industrial engineering and computer science. It is particularly suitable for researchers and professionals working on computational intelligence for product design. It provides concepts, techniques and methodologies, for product designers in applying computational intelligence to deal with product design.