MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING IN DESIGN OF PRINTED WIRE BOARDS

This paper presents an application of multicriteria decision making in system level design of printed wire boards, The main decision variabl e is the number of signal layers, and the criteria being considered ar e the cost, electrical performance, and reliability. The weighting met hod is first applied to find the most satisfactory solution, In the nu merical example a complete description of the solution is given in ter ms of the weights or importance factors, The numerical results also sh ow the stability of the solution. The computations are then repeated b y applying compromise programming and the Nash solution concept. In th e case of compromise programming the l(1), l(2), and l(infinity) norms are used, The numerical results obtained by the different methods are compared.