Note on Evaluation of Hierarchical Modular Systems
This is an incremental survey note that addresses evaluation challenges for researchers and practitioners working with hierarchical modular systems.
The paper tackles the problem of evaluating hierarchical modular systems by surveying basic assessment scales, scale transformation problems, and integration methods, and provides illustrations including numerical examples.
This survey note describes a brief systemic view to approaches for evaluation of hierarchical composite (modular) systems. The list of considered issues involves the following: (i) basic assessment scales (quantitative scale, ordinal scale, multicriteria description, two kinds of poset-like scales), (ii) basic types of scale transformations problems, (iii) basic types of scale integration methods. Evaluation of the modular systems is considered as assessment of system components (and their compatibility) and integration of the obtained local estimates into the total system estimate(s). This process is based on the above-mentioned problems (i.e., scale transformation and integration). Illustrations of the assessment problems and evaluation approaches are presented (including numerical examples).