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Pugh Controlled Convergence and Social Choice Theory

Part of: Design Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

John Morgan Nicholson  and
Paul Collopy

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The Pugh Method of Controlled Convergence is evaluated based on social choice theory, both from an axiomatic basis, and by examining all possible cases of attribute ranks for a range of numbers of alternatives and numbers of attributes. The evaluation shows that, for a typical Pugh application, concept selection varies with the arbitrary choice of datum or is simply incorrect in about one-third of the cases. While there are merits to the iteration steps and creation of new alternatives within the Pugh method, a simpler and more expressive concept ranking procedure can give far superior results.

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Collaborative designDesign theoryDesign methodsSystems Engineering (SE)
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 1245 - 1254
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