State of the art

• Design representation and modeling (Deng et al., Otto et al., Wang et al., Lottaz et al., Suh et al.)

• Design Structure Matrices (Browning, Yasine, Chen, Saridakis et al.)

• Genetic Algorithms (Goldberg)

• Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Networks (Kosko)

• Soft-Computing in Design (Rao et al., Vico et al., Tian-Li et al., Goldberg et al., Sasaki et al., Hsiao et al.)