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<bold>A Quantitative Model of the Industrial Design Cognitive Process Based on Information Entropy</bold>

Zhou

Jiayi

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Swinburne College of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Jinan, Shandong, China

15 08 2026

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Received: 0562026

2026

Jiayi Zhou (Author)

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Industrial design; Quantification of cognitive processes; Information entropy; Dynamic weight optimization; Time series prediction

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