Key Features:Helps readers build an in-depth understanding of design reuse and its support to product development and product family designPresents a holistic model to integrate a variety of design reuse issuesOffers methods and aids to assist low-cost, high-performance product design for...

We analyze the use of ℓ1-norm and Total Variation regularization within a model of road design to obtain sensible vertical alignments. With a dataset of twenty-three roads, we present a heuristic for choosing regularization parameters, and obtain cost bounds to establish a suitable choice for...

In this marketing-oriented era where manufacturers maximize profits through customer satisfaction, there is an increasing need to design a product line rather than a single product. By offering a product line, the manufacturer can customize his or her products to the needs of a variety of...