Index
Accuracy 27, 110, 115
ACHILLES 135, 157
Agents 78, 144-153
ALADIN 136, 137
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem 85, 88, 89
Ashby methods 15, 84, 93
Associativity 41-48, 61, 66-74
ASTM 75, 115, 125, 126, 128, 129, 155, 157, 163
Attributes
relevant 81, 82
See Properties
Authority 127, 151
Behaviour 34, 37, 39
combinatorial explosion 35
in service 10, 11, 110, 142
indescribable 35
materials 12
observable 149
pathological 103
peoples' 44
predicting
specified 50
Blackboard systems 144
Bounded rationality 80
BS 5750 129, 163
BSI 129, 155
CAD/CAM 2, 63, 64, 130, 140, 141, 155, 159
CALS 76, 155
CAMPUS 120
Catalogue 31, 45, 48-49, 55-58, 78, 136, 151
CEC 3, 113, 128
Certainty factors 105, 111, 112, 132
Certification 110, 116, 127
CIM 63, 155, 161
CML 147
CODATA 116, 128, 129, 157
CODE 54, 55, 58, 139
Code of Practice 128
Concept
hierarchies 39, 55, 138
modelling 49, 51, 53, 58, 151, 153
relationships 31, 44, 51, 54
Condorcet's Paradox 85, 86, 88
Consistency check 110, 113
Constraints 19, 21, 46
CORDIAL 137
Corrosion 34, 133, 135, 136
Cost of information 10, 13, 23-26
CRL 139
CRV 51, 53
CTDIF 67, 73, 74, 75, 155
Data 69
certified
chain 116
collection 130
dictionary 48, 56, 136, 162, 163
dictionary schema 56
evaluated
flows 151
grandfathered 118
handbook 119
index interchange 78
interchange 59, 60, 64, 73, 75, 114, 126, 138, 152, 162
manufacturers' 119
model 28, 40
modelling 8, 39, 43, 47, 54, 55, 156
normalized 152
raw 116
reporting 125
sparse 15
standard 116
thesaurus 51, 139
validated
value of 110, 114, 123, 124
Database
complete 14, 17, 22
engineering 143, 159, 162
materials 26, 149, 157, 158, 160, 161, 162, 164
object-oriented 41, 43, 47, 54
quality 126
relational 45, 62, 64, 72, 74
schema 28, 40-48, 49, 56, 61, 151
self-describing 55, 57
semantic 47
systems 115, 127, 129, 130
dBase 72, 73, 74
Decision analysis 18, 20, 79, 157
Design 1, 7-28, 109, 122, 130, 164
concurrent 11
embodiment 14
high and low risk 124
software 110
Designation 162
Dictionary 31, 50
Dominance 88, 93, 98
EDIF 70, 155, 160
EDIFACT 63, 155
Effort 64, 80, 144, 151
EMS 17, 93
Entity-relationship modelling 44, 47, 55
Environment
Evaluation 110, 113, 116, 117, 119, 161
Evidence rules 81, 100, 105, 132, 133
Expert systems 5, 19, 20, 105, 112, 131-140, 157, 158, 161, 162
Express 47, 69, 75, 139, 156
Feedback 23, 145-148
Field 42-50, 56, 74
Finite element analysis 11, 64, 112, 142
FORS 145, 156
Functional dependencies 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 54, 138, 151
GELAC 46
Grammar 61, 74, 152
Guide-lines 117, 122, 128, 129, 130
Heuristics
Hierarchies 28, 30-33, 39, 45, 47-49, 53, 66, 69
IGES 52, 64, 76, 156
Ill-structured problems 38
Incremental instability 20, 103
Independence
preference 91, 92
Information market 60
Information resource
Informational modelling 43
INFOS 4
IRDS 51-57, 138, 151, 156
ISO 9000 129
JIT 63
Judgement 81, 104, 116
professional 81
Knowledge-based systems 5, 31, 43, 53, 131, 135
Lattice 66, 68, 71
Learning systems 14, 140
Lexicographic ordering 98
LISP 71, 147
Manufacturing 10, 11, 27, 36, 133, 134, 137
MAP/TOP 64, 156
Materials
class 14, 17, 22
designation 4, 26, 41, 44, 52, 131, 133
designed 150
identification 1, 27, 28, 125, 127
new 113
non-comparable 104
quality category 123, 125
selection
Mechanisms 150
Merit indices 16, 18, 20, 23, 84, 92, 93, 149
Meta-metadata 49
Metadata 40, 62, 68, 72, 114, 126, 156, 164
Microstructure 35, 37, 136
MIL-HDBK 111, 119, 122, 161
MISL 67
Models 117, 162
causal 134
conceptual 54
data
lumped-parameter 35
physical 7, 18, 79, 82, 84, 93, 96, 116, 131
process 134
simulation 132
software 35
state and process 131
symbolic 92, 133
thermodynamic 38
MPD Network 3, 57, 118, 119
MRP 63
Multivariable dependency 46
Named casts and lists 68-71
Naming 51, 52
Networking 118
NIST 3
Non-inferior set 85, 87, 95
domination 87
ephemeral 89
extended 93
lowest score 89, 98
weak ranking induced 88
Normalization 46, 51
NULL values 45, 46, 68, 72, 74, 135
Object-oriented databases
Objective function 19, 20, 21
OMG 78, 147, 156
Organization 129, 130
compiling data 119, 152
delivering data 130
evaluating data 110, 130
perception of data 109
Orthogonal concepts 30
OSI 64, 70, 77
PAL 22, 134, 137, 161
Pareto optimal set
PDES 156
PERITUS 94, 102, 106, 162
PLASCAMS 20, 103
Precision 110, 114, 115
Preference independence
Pricing-out 92
PRIME 136
Product model 13, 64
Properties 52, 109, 113, 114, 129, 130
convenient fiction 27, 111
distinguishing 15, 27
estimated 15
incommensurate 86
non-numerical 12
proxy 83
sizing 37
state and process 35
structure-sensitive 36, 44
target 19, 106
unimportant 100
Public domain 124
Quality 5, 82, 109-130
code 121
consistent 112
perceived 109
Range 113, 114, 115, 126
Rationality 79, 80, 81, 88, 90, 98, 105, 133
Recycling 11, 12, 27
Representation
hierarchies
materials information 29-58, 144
properties 21
Reputation 110
Risk averse 105
Safety-critical systems 123
Satisficing decisions 80
Security 118, 128
Selection 133
materials 7, 8-28, 79, 157-164
planning 9, 23
policy 105
Semantics 41, 42, 54
Sensitivity analysis 85
Service-simulation tests
SGML 76
Shortlists 18, 20, 21, 22, 88, 99
Simultaneous engineering
SOAR 145, 161
Software 110, 113, 128
quality 128-129
SPLINTER 23, 38, 39, 139
SQL 64, 74
SSADM 129
Statistics 110, 111, 116, 127
Status 123, 127
STEP 52, 63, 64, 69, 70, 71, 75, 76, 156
Systems analysis 43, 44, 75, 151
Techniques of last resort 79
Term definition 42, 45, 51, 52-58
Test
measurements 133
methods 27, 120
Thesaurus 31, 41, 52, 57, 151, 161
Tutorial systems 135
Uncertainty 22, 23, 84, 105, 132, 133
Units 49, 52, 114, 115
User interface 52, 88, 128, 137, 151, 158, 160, 161, 164
Utility function 82, 99, 102, 107
non-linear 106
Validation 116, 162
Value function 82
aggregate 82, 85, 89, 96, 133
bar-chart 94
inconsistent 91
monotonic 89
PERITUS 102
pitfalls 85
strategically equivalent 90
VAMAS 3, 4, 75, 76, 117, 156, 161, 162
Variables
Vocabularies 51, 53
von Neumann axioms 85, 90, 95, 103
Weights 20, 21, 90, 108
fragile 106, 133
hierarchies 96, 103
mid-point 100
normalized 91, 101, 102
set by user 19, 23, 96, 103
unchanged 97
X.12 76, 77, 156