A reconfigurable product serves as multiple products to deliver different functions through reconfiguration processes to change between product configurations. An optimization method was developed in our previous research to identify both the optimal design and the optimal reconfiguration processes. Because the generic design or process considering different candidates was modeled by an AND–OR tree or graph, importance weights were assigned to nodes with an AND or OR relation, such that the less-important nodes were pruned to improve the optimization efficiency. In this research, an extended analytic network process method is introduced to further improve the quality of the optimal reconfigurable product design approach when dependency relations among descriptions of design/process candidates and evaluation criteria are considered. In this method, the initial weights of the design/process nodes in the AND–OR tree or graph are adjusted based on the dependency relations such that the weights which truly reflect their contributions to the solutions are achieved. In addition, multiple evaluation criteria similar to the evaluation measures used in optimization are selected to identify the weights of the design/process nodes. A case study has been implemented to demonstrate effectiveness of the extended analytic network process for improving the quality of optimal reconfigurable product design.

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考虑设计/过程候选描述与评价标准之间依赖关系的可重构产品优化设计的扩展解析网络过程方法

可重构产品作为多个产品，通过重构过程提供不同的功能，以在产品配置之间进行更改。在我们之前的研究中开发了一种优化方法来确定最佳设计和最佳重构过程。由于考虑不同候选者的通用设计或过程是通过 AND-OR 树或图建模的，因此将重要性权重分配给具有 AND 或 OR 关系的节点，从而修剪不太重要的节点以提高优化效率。在本研究中，当考虑设计/过程候选的描述和评估标准之间的依赖关系时，引入了一种扩展的解析网络过程方法，以进一步提高最优可重构产品设计方法的质量。在这种方法中，AND-OR 树或图中的设计/过程节点的初始权重根据依赖关系进行调整，从而实现真正反映其对解决方案贡献的权重。此外，选择与优化中使用的评估措施类似的多个评估标准来确定设计/过程节点的权重。已经实施了一个案例研究，以证明扩展分析网络过程在提高最佳可重构产品设计质量方面的有效性。选择与优化中使用的评估措施类似的多个评估标准来确定设计/过程节点的权重。已经实施了一个案例研究，以证明扩展分析网络过程在提高最佳可重构产品设计质量方面的有效性。选择与优化中使用的评估措施类似的多个评估标准来确定设计/过程节点的权重。已经实施了一个案例研究，以证明扩展分析网络过程在提高最佳可重构产品设计质量方面的有效性。