Translated from the Japanese by Kenji Iino

With 250 Figures

Springer

Yotaro Hatamura
Hatamura Institute for the
Advancement of Technology
Tokyo Opera City Tower 52F
3-20-2 Nishishinjuku
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1452
Japan

and

Professor, Kogakuin University
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

Tran slator
Kenji Iino
Sydrose LP
475 North 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95112
USA

Originally published in Japanese as Koushite Kimeta by The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Decision-Making in engineering design. - (Decision engineering)

1. Engineering design - Decision making
I. Hatamura, Yotaro
658.4 ?03'002462

ISBN-13: 9781846280009
ISBN-10: 1846280001

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005933049

Decision Engineering Series ISSN 1619-5736
ISBN-10: 1-84628-000-1 e-ISBN 1-84628-261-6

ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-000-9

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