Design Theory and Methods using CAD/CAE

2.5. Game Theory

The design theory we discussed so far exclusively focused on a situation in which a single decision maker needs to find a best possible decision among alternatives. A decision needed to be made by one decision maker to produce maximum payoffs in single or multiple attributes (or criteria) under a set of constraints. In many situations, however, the payoff of a decision made by an individual depends not only on what he or she does but also on the outcome of the decisions or choices that other individuals make. In engineering design, design decisions are often not made by a single designer or a single design team. Instead, multiple designers or multiple design teams are working on the product design and are involved in design decision ...