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Assembly Time Modeling Through Connective Complexity Metrics, James L. Mathieson, Bradley A. Wallace, Joshua D. Summers May 2012

Assembly Time Modeling Through Connective Complexity Metrics, James L. Mathieson, Bradley A. Wallace, Joshua D. Summers

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This paper presents an approach for the development of surrogate models predicting the assembly time of a system based on complexity metrics of the physical system architecture when detailed geometric information is unavailable. A convention for modelling physical architecture is presented, followed by a sample of 10 analysed systems used for training and three systems used for validation. These systems are evaluated on complexity metrics developed from graph theoretic measures. An example model is developed based on a series of regressions of trends observed within the sample data. This is validated against the systems that are not used to develop …