AGENT-BASED SIMULATION FOR KANSEI ENGINEERING: TESTING A FUZZY LINEAR QUANTIFICATION METHOD IN AN ARTIFICIAL WORLD

Thispaperarguesthatagent-basedsimulationcanbeusedasawayfortestingKanseiEngineeringmethodswhichdealwiththehumanreactionfromsensorytomentalstate,thatis,sensitivity,sense,sensibility,feeling,esthetics,emotionaffectionandintuition.Anewfuzzylinearquantificationmethodistestedinanartificialworldbyagent-basedmodelingandsimulations,andtheperformanceofthefuzzylinearmethodisparedwiththatofageicalgorithm.Thesimulationscanexpandpeople'simaginationandenhancepeople'sintuitionthatthenewfuzzylinearquantificationmethodiseffective.

YoshiteruNAKAMORI(InternationalInstituteforAppliedSystemsAnalysisA-2361Laxenburg,Austria) 

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