Automated System Design Using Patterns for Redundant Configurations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing automated system design techniques struggle to efficiently design redundant system configurations that meet availability requirements, as they lack specific information on concretization patterns and do not account for multi-element configuration elements, leading to increased design time and complexity.
Innovation Solution
An automated system design device and method that applies predefined concretization patterns to multi-element configuration elements without decomposing them, allowing for the design of redundant configurations by either expanding or decomposing these elements based on specified numbers, thereby optimizing the design process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing automated system design techniques are used to design redundant system configurations, then system availability requirements can be met, but design time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system configuration into multiple independent configuration elements, each with its own concretization pattern. This allows the automated design process to handle each element separately and efficiently, reducing overall design time while maintaining redundancy requirements through systematic combination of segmented elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent pre-defines concretization patterns for configuration elements before the actual system design process. By preparing these patterns in advance, the system can quickly generate redundant configurations without performing complex analysis during the design phase, thus reducing design time while ensuring availability requirements are met.
2Reliability
If existing automated system design techniques are used to design redundant system configurations, then availability requirements can be satisfied, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the system into discrete configuration elements with predefined concretization patterns, the patent reduces design complexity. Each element can be independently analyzed and combined, making the overall redundant configuration design more manageable and less complex than treating the entire system as a single unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the approach from designing entire system configurations at once to designing individual configuration elements with specific parameters. By defining concretization patterns that specify how each element should be configured, the system transforms a complex holistic design problem into simpler parameter-based element design, reducing overall design complexity.
3Ease of operation
If multi-element configuration elements are decomposed into individual elements for design, then detailed control is achieved, but design time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments multi-element configuration elements into individual elements with specific concretization patterns, enabling detailed design control. However, by pre-defining these patterns and using automated combination rules, it avoids the time penalty of manual decomposition, achieving both control and efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying mechanisms where predefined concretization patterns are replicated and applied to multiple configuration elements. This allows detailed control over each element's design while avoiding redundant analysis work, significantly reducing design time compared to traditional decomposition methods.
4Adaptability or versatility
If traditional system design methods are used without predefined concretization patterns, then flexibility is maintained, but automated design capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces concretization patterns as parameter-based templates that define how configuration elements should be designed. These patterns maintain flexibility by allowing different parameters to be adjusted for different scenarios, while simultaneously enabling automated design through systematic application of these parameterized templates, thus resolving the contradiction between flexibility and automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The concretization patterns serve multiple functions: they provide design templates for flexibility, enable automated processing, and can be adapted to different configuration elements. This universal mechanism allows the system to maintain adaptability while achieving significant automated design capability, as the same pattern framework applies across diverse configuration scenarios.
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AI summary
An automated system design device includes: a means for accepting a system requirement; and a means for deriving a concrete system configuration by applying a predefined concretization pattern for each configuration element based on the system requirement, wherein the means for deriving a system configuration in a case where the multi-element is a single configuration element that represents a plurality of configuration elements of a same type, in concretizing the multi-element, advances the concretization of the multi-element without decomposing it into individual configuration elements to thereby design a redundant system configuration.