Morphological methods for design of modular systems (a survey)
This is an incremental survey that provides a comprehensive overview of existing morphological methods for modular system design, useful for researchers and practitioners in engineering and optimization fields.
The article surveys morphological approaches for designing modular systems, describing eight methods including basic morphological analysis, modifications for optimization, and hierarchical multicriteria designs, with illustrative examples like GSM network design.
The article addresses morphological approaches to design of modular systems. The following methods are briefly described: (i) basic version of morphological analysis (MA), (ii) modification of MA as method of closeness to ideal point(s), (iii reducing of MA to linear programming, (iv) multiple choice problem, (v) quadratic assignment problem, (vi) Pareto-based MA (i.e., revelation of Pareto-efficient solutions), (vii) Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design (HMMD) approach, and (viii) Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design (HMMD) approach based on fuzzy estimates. The above-mentioned methods are illustrated by schemes, models, and illustrative examples. An additional realistic example (design of GSM network) is presented to illustrate main considered methods.