An analysis of modularity in aspect oriented design
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Information policies and open source software in developing countries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Dependency structure matrix, genetic algorithms, and effective recombination
Evolutionary Computation
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
A new DSM clustering algorithm for linkage groups identification
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Assessing aspect modularizations using design structure matrix and net option value
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development I
Linking Cyclicality and Product Quality
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Due to the large-scale nature of complex product architectures, it is necessary to develop some form of abstraction in order to be able to describe and grasp the structure of the product, facilitating product modularization. In this paper we develop three methods for describing product architectures: (a) the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM), (b) Molecular Diagrams (MD), and (c) Visibility-Dependency (VD) signature diagrams. Each method has its own language (and abstraction), which can be used to qualitatively or quantitatively characterize any given architecture spanning the modular-integrated continuum. A consequence of abstraction is the loss of some detail. So, it is important to choose the correct method (and resolution) to characterize the architecture in order to retain the salient details. The proposed methods are suited for describing architectures of varying levels of complexity and detail. The three methods are demonstrated using a sequence of illustrative simple examples and a case-study analysis of a complex product architecture for an industrial gas turbine. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 7: 35–60, 2004