The problem of collective decision by design teams has received considerable attention in the scientific literature of engineering design. A much debated problem is that in which multiple designers formulate their individual preference rankings of different design alternatives and these rankings should be aggregated into a collective one. This paper focuses the attention on three basic research questions: (1) “How can the degree of concordance of designer rankings be measured?”, (2) “For a given set of designer rankings, which aggregation model provides the most coherent solution?”, and (3) “To what extent is the collective ranking influenced by the aggregation model in use?”. The aim of this paper is to present a novel approach that addresses the above questions in a relatively simple and agile way. A detailed description of the methodology is supported by a practical application to a real-life case study.

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设计决策：设计师的一致性和阿罗定理对集体偏好排名的影响

设计团队集体决策的问题在工程设计的科学文献中受到了相当大的关注。一个备受争议的问题是，多个设计师制定不同设计方案的个人偏好排名，这些排名应该汇总成一个集体。本文关注三个基本研究问题：（1）“如何衡量设计师排名的一致性程度？”，（2）“对于给定的一组设计师排名，哪种聚合模型提供了最一致的解决方案？ ”，以及（3）“集体排名在多大程度上受所用聚合模型的影响？”。本文的目的是提出一种新颖的方法，以相对简单和灵活的方式解决上述问题。