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Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; 1 Modular Systems, Combinatorial Engineering Frameworks; 1.1 Preliminaries; 1.2 Basic Types of Hierarchies; 1.3 Combinatorial Engineering Frameworks; 1.4 Summary; 2 Methods of Morphological Design (Synthesis); 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Morphological Design Approaches; 2.2.1 Morphological Analysis; 2.2.2 Method of Closeness to Ideal Point; 2.2.3 Pareto-Based Morphological Approach; 2.2.4 Linear Programming; 2.2.5 Multiple Choice Problem; 2.2.6 Assignment/Allocation Problems; 2.2.7 Hierarchical Morphological Multicriteria Design (HMMD).
2.3 Design Examples for GSM Network2.3.1 Initial Example; 2.3.2 Morphological Analysis; 2.3.3 Method of Closeness to Ideal Point; 2.3.4 Pareto-Based Morphological Analysis; 2.3.5 Multiple Choice Problem; 2.3.6 Hierarchical Morphological Design; 2.3.7 Comparison of Methods and Discussion; 2.4 Towards Other Approaches; 2.5 Summary; 3 Multiset Estimates and Combinatorial Synthesis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Basic Assessment Problems; 3.3 Operations Over Multiset Estimates; 3.3.1 Integrated Estimates ; 3.3.2 Vector-Like Proximity ; 3.3.3 Comparison of Estimates; 3.3.4 Aggregation of Estimates.
3.3.5 Alignment of Estimates3.4 Combinatorial Synthesis (Morphological Approach); 3.4.1 Example: Basic HMMD, Three-Component System; 3.4.2 Example: Basic HMMD, Four-Component System; 3.4.3 Modified Version of HMMD Method; 3.4.4 Example: Three-Component System, Three-Element Assessment; 3.4.5 Example: Four-Component System, Four Elements Assessment; 3.4.6 Example: Three-Layer Hierarchical System; 3.5 Multiset Estimates in Knapsack-Like Problems; 3.6 Multiset Estimates and Multi-attribute Alternatives; 3.7 Summary; 4 Design of Hierarchical Structure; 4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Expert Based `Top-Down' Procedure4.3 Hierarchical Clustering; 4.4 Towards Ontology; 4.5 Spanning Trees; 4.6 Towards Optimal Organizational Hierarchies; 4.7 Multi-layer Structures; 4.7.1 Multi-layer Approach; 4.7.2 Typical Hierarchical Layers in Communication Network; 4.7.3 Layered K-Connected Network; 4.7.4 Towards Hierarchical Network Design Problems; 4.7.5 Connection in Two-Layer Network (Access Points
Users); 4.8 Morphological Hierarchy; 4.9 General Design Framework for Multi-layer Structure; 4.10 Summary; 5 System Configuration and Combinatorial Optimization; 5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Underlaying Combinatorial Problems and Schemes5.2.1 Problem of Representatives; 5.2.2 Shortest Path Problem; 5.2.3 Multipartite Graph Clustering and Weighted Clique in Multipartite Graph; 5.2.4 Extended Assignment/Allocation Problem; 5.2.5 Graph Coloring Problems; 5.2.6 Some Related Problems; 5.3 Applied Versions of System Configuration Problem; 5.4 Towards Dynamic System Reconfiguration; 5.5 Summary; 6 System Evaluation; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Considered Types of Assessment Scales; 6.3 Transformation of Scales; 6.4 Integration of Scales and System Quality; 6.5 Numerical Examples.
2.3 Design Examples for GSM Network2.3.1 Initial Example; 2.3.2 Morphological Analysis; 2.3.3 Method of Closeness to Ideal Point; 2.3.4 Pareto-Based Morphological Analysis; 2.3.5 Multiple Choice Problem; 2.3.6 Hierarchical Morphological Design; 2.3.7 Comparison of Methods and Discussion; 2.4 Towards Other Approaches; 2.5 Summary; 3 Multiset Estimates and Combinatorial Synthesis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Basic Assessment Problems; 3.3 Operations Over Multiset Estimates; 3.3.1 Integrated Estimates ; 3.3.2 Vector-Like Proximity ; 3.3.3 Comparison of Estimates; 3.3.4 Aggregation of Estimates.
3.3.5 Alignment of Estimates3.4 Combinatorial Synthesis (Morphological Approach); 3.4.1 Example: Basic HMMD, Three-Component System; 3.4.2 Example: Basic HMMD, Four-Component System; 3.4.3 Modified Version of HMMD Method; 3.4.4 Example: Three-Component System, Three-Element Assessment; 3.4.5 Example: Four-Component System, Four Elements Assessment; 3.4.6 Example: Three-Layer Hierarchical System; 3.5 Multiset Estimates in Knapsack-Like Problems; 3.6 Multiset Estimates and Multi-attribute Alternatives; 3.7 Summary; 4 Design of Hierarchical Structure; 4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Expert Based `Top-Down' Procedure4.3 Hierarchical Clustering; 4.4 Towards Ontology; 4.5 Spanning Trees; 4.6 Towards Optimal Organizational Hierarchies; 4.7 Multi-layer Structures; 4.7.1 Multi-layer Approach; 4.7.2 Typical Hierarchical Layers in Communication Network; 4.7.3 Layered K-Connected Network; 4.7.4 Towards Hierarchical Network Design Problems; 4.7.5 Connection in Two-Layer Network (Access Points
Users); 4.8 Morphological Hierarchy; 4.9 General Design Framework for Multi-layer Structure; 4.10 Summary; 5 System Configuration and Combinatorial Optimization; 5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Underlaying Combinatorial Problems and Schemes5.2.1 Problem of Representatives; 5.2.2 Shortest Path Problem; 5.2.3 Multipartite Graph Clustering and Weighted Clique in Multipartite Graph; 5.2.4 Extended Assignment/Allocation Problem; 5.2.5 Graph Coloring Problems; 5.2.6 Some Related Problems; 5.3 Applied Versions of System Configuration Problem; 5.4 Towards Dynamic System Reconfiguration; 5.5 Summary; 6 System Evaluation; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Considered Types of Assessment Scales; 6.3 Transformation of Scales; 6.4 Integration of Scales and System Quality; 6.5 Numerical Examples.