This book examines seven key combinatorial engineering frameworks
(composite schemes consisting of algorithms and/or interactive
procedures) for hierarchical modular (composite) systems. These
frameworks are based on combinatorial optimization problems (e.g.,
knapsack problem, multiple choice problem, assignment problem,
morphological clique problem), with the author's version of
morphological design approach - Hierarchical Morphological
Multicritieria Design (HMMD) - providing a conceptual lens with which to
elucidate the examples discussed. This approach is based on ordinal
estimates of design alternatives for systems parts/components, however,
the book also puts forward an original version of HMMD that is based on
new interval multiset estimates for the design alternatives with special
attention paid to the aggregation of modular solutions (system
versions). The second part of 'Modular System Design and Evaluation'
provides ten information technology case studies that enriches
understanding of the design of system design, detection of system
bottlenecks and system improvement, amongst others. The book is intended
for researchers and scientists, students, and practitioners in many
domains of information technology and engineering. The book is also
designed to be used as a text for courses in system design, systems
engineering and life cycle engineering at the level of undergraduate
level, graduate/PhD levels, and for continuing education. The material
and methods contained in this book were used over four years in Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) in the author's
faculty course "System Design".
