Fashion design model

Gupta S., Bruniaux R, Koncar V. (2006), Adaptive model of the human body a new tool for fashion designers , 8th International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes Conference (IFFTT) Fashion in the Digital Age, Raleigh, USA, 20-22 June. 

Besides the model management aspects, other types of knowledge support the engineer in the modeling task. For example, consistency checking of a design model can be performed in an automated fashion, if general rules or constraints of the domain are specified explicitly in a formal manner. 

For the design of subsequent experiments, we proceed in a similar fashion however, in the weighted divergence only the models that still remain adequate are included. 

Wearing the designer s latest fashions, the clothing model... 

By slowly increasing the complexity of the models in this fashion, it was hoped that a model could be obtained that was just sufficiently complex to allow an adequate fit of the data. This conscious attempt to select a model that satisfies the criteria of adequate data representation and of minimum number of parameters has been called the principle of parsimonious parameterization. It can be seen from the table that the residual mean squares progressively decrease until entry 4. Then, in spite of the increased model complexity and increased number of parameters, a better fit of the data is not obtained. If the reaction order for the naphthalene decomposition is estimated, as in entry 5, the estimate is not incompatible with the unity order of entry 4. If an additional step is added as in entry 6, no improvement of fit is obtained. Furthermore, the estimated parameter for that step is negative and poorly defined. Entry 7 shows yet another model that is compatible with the data. If further discrimination between these two remaining rival models is desired, additional experiments must be conducted, for example, by using the model discrimination designs discussed later. The critical experiments necessary for this discrimination are by no means obvious (see Section VII). 

Mechanistic models can describe pharmacological and physiological events in a more refined fashion and with greater utility than empirical models. Such models make more advanced and more realistic assumptions about drug distribution and effects. Mechanistic models may be used to find optimal sampling times during clinical trial design and to model clinical trial outcomes. The application... 

Typically, the optimization process is conducted in iterative fashion (Fig. 5), beginning with the development of a model of the process. The model can be statistical (6) or mathematical. In early stages of product or process design, relatively little is known, and only a preliminary version of... 

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