Independence of Functional Requirements and Design Parameters

Axiomatic Design's first axiom: keep functional requirements independent of each other.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

Nam P. Suh
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Mechanical engineer; developed Axiomatic Design with the independence axiom.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Conditional Independenceconcept0.733
Assumption required by IIT/PyPhi; evaluated alongside Markov property for each candidate time series.
What Kinds Of Functional Relationships Between Components Arequestion0.725
What Are The Necessary And Sufficient Conditions Forquestion0.723
Functional Adaptationconcept0.719
The deep fit between a building's form and its functional requirements, achieved only through differentiation.
Why Should Functional Or Structural Criteria Be Associatedquestion0.708
Functional Similarityconcept0.707
Similarity measured with respect to network behavior/function rather than statistical correlation of activations.
Functional closureconcept0.706
The property of a subsystem that cannot influence others; used to lesion systems in simulations.
functional complexityconcept0.706
Flusser’s category of complexity where a system provides a complex use (like chess), enabling creative plays.