Selecting among design options

Matrices

Weighted matrix

Analytic hierarchy process

Maybe Fibonacci weighting would make sense

Trade study

Explores the solution space

Process

Study rules

Includes choosing evaluation criteria and their relative importance

This feels similar to setting up the matrices

Sample

Test

Could be back off the envelope, or a contractor deliverable

Pareto front is essentially about ROI

Which is essentially about opportunity cost

Relationship of attribute to utility

Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration

Cost is often used to represent the combined attributes

Single attribute

Probably best to segment by highest connectivity and highest sensitivity architectural decisions

Feels like evaluation criteria for trade studies, attributes for tradespace and matrices are really the operative work. These different methods are essentially different ways of data visualization

Multiple stakeholders

In general there is no optimal solution to a problem where stakeholders have conflicting needs

Design vector

The vector representation of the Architectural Decisions

Made up of design variables

Design-value matrix

Attributes vs design variables

Are these 1-1?

No