CONCEPTUAL BLIND SPOTS IN COMPLEX SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROJECTS – A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Thomas ,R.C.; Gero ,J.S.
Series: DESIGN
Section: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Page(s): 1361-1370
Abstract
This paper presents an approach to studying how conceptual blind spots emerge in complex system engineering projects--i.e. when the value systems and conceptual schemas of collaborating teams are incongruous and not seen. It uses methods derived from computational social science founded on agent-based modeling using social agents. The paper describes the agents and their capabilities, and also a NetLogo implementation of an abstracted version of a space launch system. Agents choose how much to invest in discovering unknown dependencies. Results are portrayed in a Design dependency matrix.
Keywords: agent-based modelling, design cognition, trade space, design dependencies