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The primary concept of FDT used in Chapter 5 is that the design process is a mapping of the desired set of specifications (requirements and constraints) onto the artifact description. This ideal view of the design process does not address how the mapping between the function space and the attribute space occurs in real design. Real design is an evolutionary process that progresses from a set of specifications toward the artifact. In this chapter, the evolutionary nature of design is formalized through a series of transformations (process steps) beginning with the leading specifications and resulting in a physical description of the artifact. There is precedence in the relationship between transformed states. Each state is driven by a set of production rules and produces a set of new specifications and/or a partial solution.
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Braha, D., Maimon, O. (1998). Modeling the Evolutionary Design Process. In: A Mathematical Theory of Design: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications. Applied Optimization, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2872-9_6
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